Cargando…

Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study

OBJECTIVES: One of the major duties of nurses is proper medication administration while maintaining patient safety, which requires sufficient knowledge and practice. Any gaps in knowledge used by nurses can lead to irreversible injury or death of the patient. This study is aimed to determine and com...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Shahzeydi, Amir, Joonbakhsh, Fatemeh, Ajoodaniyan, Najmeh, Khaksar, Sajjad, Kalhor, Faramarz, Sabzghabaee, Ali Mohammad, Kalhor, Rohollah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36478694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20503121221135397
_version_ 1784843638646243328
author Shahzeydi, Amir
Joonbakhsh, Fatemeh
Ajoodaniyan, Najmeh
Khaksar, Sajjad
Kalhor, Faramarz
Sabzghabaee, Ali Mohammad
Kalhor, Rohollah
author_facet Shahzeydi, Amir
Joonbakhsh, Fatemeh
Ajoodaniyan, Najmeh
Khaksar, Sajjad
Kalhor, Faramarz
Sabzghabaee, Ali Mohammad
Kalhor, Rohollah
author_sort Shahzeydi, Amir
collection PubMed
description OBJECTIVES: One of the major duties of nurses is proper medication administration while maintaining patient safety, which requires sufficient knowledge and practice. Any gaps in knowledge used by nurses can lead to irreversible injury or death of the patient. This study is aimed to determine and compare the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in using the information resources in pediatrics wards. METHOD: This descriptive observational study was performed on 300 nurses and nursing students. Sources of knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students were analyzed with researcher-made tools to determine their pharmaceutical knowledge, sources of knowledge, and attitudes by independent t-test, chi-square, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson, and Spearman tests. RESULT: Three hundred questionnaires were examined. The clinical experience of nurses and students was their most important source of information in drug challenges for 33.7% of the participants. About 24.6% of nurses obtained the required information from specialized books on pediatric medicine. About 17.1% of the participants attained their knowledge from multiple sources (e.g. various available sources such as the Internet, pharmacy books, software, and their experiences and colleagues), while electronic sources and the Internet were the sources of knowledge for 15.5% and 7.7% of the nurses, respectively. Concerning nursing students, 6.3% used books, 41.7% considered colleagues (clinical experiences), 20.8% employed electronic resources, 22.8% used the Internet, and 9.1% relied on multiple sources. There were significant differences in the knowledge and performance of the nurses based on their source of pharmacological knowledge (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Most of the resources used in the hospital are not up-to-date and evidence-base, and the majority of nurses tend to rely on their clinical experience or their collegues information for medication administration rather than reading books or searching for up-to-date approaches and information. Nursing students also trust nurses’ clinical experiences more than other sources provided for them including books and Internet. Some action should be taken by the managers for boosting the nurses’ tendency for using up-to-date information resources.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9720831
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher SAGE Publications
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-97208312022-12-06 Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study Shahzeydi, Amir Joonbakhsh, Fatemeh Ajoodaniyan, Najmeh Khaksar, Sajjad Kalhor, Faramarz Sabzghabaee, Ali Mohammad Kalhor, Rohollah SAGE Open Med Original Research Article OBJECTIVES: One of the major duties of nurses is proper medication administration while maintaining patient safety, which requires sufficient knowledge and practice. Any gaps in knowledge used by nurses can lead to irreversible injury or death of the patient. This study is aimed to determine and compare the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in using the information resources in pediatrics wards. METHOD: This descriptive observational study was performed on 300 nurses and nursing students. Sources of knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students were analyzed with researcher-made tools to determine their pharmaceutical knowledge, sources of knowledge, and attitudes by independent t-test, chi-square, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson, and Spearman tests. RESULT: Three hundred questionnaires were examined. The clinical experience of nurses and students was their most important source of information in drug challenges for 33.7% of the participants. About 24.6% of nurses obtained the required information from specialized books on pediatric medicine. About 17.1% of the participants attained their knowledge from multiple sources (e.g. various available sources such as the Internet, pharmacy books, software, and their experiences and colleagues), while electronic sources and the Internet were the sources of knowledge for 15.5% and 7.7% of the nurses, respectively. Concerning nursing students, 6.3% used books, 41.7% considered colleagues (clinical experiences), 20.8% employed electronic resources, 22.8% used the Internet, and 9.1% relied on multiple sources. There were significant differences in the knowledge and performance of the nurses based on their source of pharmacological knowledge (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Most of the resources used in the hospital are not up-to-date and evidence-base, and the majority of nurses tend to rely on their clinical experience or their collegues information for medication administration rather than reading books or searching for up-to-date approaches and information. Nursing students also trust nurses’ clinical experiences more than other sources provided for them including books and Internet. Some action should be taken by the managers for boosting the nurses’ tendency for using up-to-date information resources. SAGE Publications 2022-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9720831/ /pubmed/36478694 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20503121221135397 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Original Research Article
Shahzeydi, Amir
Joonbakhsh, Fatemeh
Ajoodaniyan, Najmeh
Khaksar, Sajjad
Kalhor, Faramarz
Sabzghabaee, Ali Mohammad
Kalhor, Rohollah
Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study
title Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study
title_full Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study
title_fullStr Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study
title_full_unstemmed Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study
title_short Comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: An observational study
title_sort comparing the pharmacology knowledge and performance of nurses and nursing students in the use of information resources in pediatrics wards: an observational study
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36478694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20503121221135397
work_keys_str_mv AT shahzeydiamir comparingthepharmacologyknowledgeandperformanceofnursesandnursingstudentsintheuseofinformationresourcesinpediatricswardsanobservationalstudy
AT joonbakhshfatemeh comparingthepharmacologyknowledgeandperformanceofnursesandnursingstudentsintheuseofinformationresourcesinpediatricswardsanobservationalstudy
AT ajoodaniyannajmeh comparingthepharmacologyknowledgeandperformanceofnursesandnursingstudentsintheuseofinformationresourcesinpediatricswardsanobservationalstudy
AT khaksarsajjad comparingthepharmacologyknowledgeandperformanceofnursesandnursingstudentsintheuseofinformationresourcesinpediatricswardsanobservationalstudy
AT kalhorfaramarz comparingthepharmacologyknowledgeandperformanceofnursesandnursingstudentsintheuseofinformationresourcesinpediatricswardsanobservationalstudy
AT sabzghabaeealimohammad comparingthepharmacologyknowledgeandperformanceofnursesandnursingstudentsintheuseofinformationresourcesinpediatricswardsanobservationalstudy
AT kalhorrohollah comparingthepharmacologyknowledgeandperformanceofnursesandnursingstudentsintheuseofinformationresourcesinpediatricswardsanobservationalstudy