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Tochterman, Lori A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) is a model of clinical teaching which has gained widespread acceptance and national recognition as an innovative method of clinical education for undergraduate nursing students (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2010; Warner & Burton, 2009). The primary goals and benefits of the DEU for schools of nursing are…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Nursing Education, Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students
Hinton, Janine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The quasi-experimental research study developed and tested an education process to reduce and trap medication errors. The study was framed by Endsley's (1995a) model of situation awareness in dynamic decision making. Situation awareness improvement strategies were practiced during high-fidelity clinical simulations. Harmful medication errors occur…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Nursing Education, Safety, Allied Health Personnel
Hinkson, Elizabeth; Mauter, Elaine; Wilson, Louise; Johansen, Annette; Maughan, Erin D. – National Association of School Nurses (NASN), 2017
It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that the registered professional school nurse (hereinafter referred to as school nurse) be responsible for medication administration in the school setting, leading the development of written medication administration policies and procedures that focus on safe and efficient…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Drug Therapy, School Health Services, Guidelines
Clay, Daniel; Farris, Karen; McCarthy, Ann Marie; Kelly, Michael W.; Howarth, Robyn – Journal of School Nursing, 2008
Medications are administered every day in schools across the country. Researchers and clinicians have studied school nurses' and educators' experiences with medication administration, but not the experiences of children or their parents. This study examined medication administration from the child and parent perspectives to (a) determine problems…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Drug Therapy, Problems, Risk
Safety First: Combining Task Models of Medical Devices with Numeracy Skills and Technical Competence
Bowen, Judy; Coben, Diana – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2019
We propose that by more closely aligning interdisciplinary work in (a) numeracy education for medication dosage calculations and (b) model-driven design for medical devices that are used for delivery of medication we may help address the incident-rate in incorrect medication calculations and delivery, given that such devices commonly require the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Numeracy, Drug Therapy, Mathematics Skills
Idzinga, J. C.; de Jong, A. L.; van den Bemt, P. M. L. A. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Previous studies, both in hospitals and in institutions for clients with an intellectual disability (ID), have shown that medication errors at the administration stage are frequent, especially when medication has to be administered through an enteral feeding tube. In hospitals a specially designed intervention programme has proven to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mental Retardation, Hospitals, Nurses
McIntosh, Constance E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study explored school nurses knowledge of the diagnostic criteria and secondary conditions related to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), their involvement in the identification and treatment of ASD, their knowledge of medication used to treat ASD, and their overall medication management of children with ASD. Participants included 100 school…
Descriptors: National Surveys, School Nurses, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Singh, Hardeep; Weingart, Saul N. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
Despite an increasing focus on patient safety in ambulatory care, progress in understanding and reducing diagnostic errors in this setting lag behind many other safety concerns such as medication errors. To explore the extent and nature of diagnostic errors in ambulatory care, we identified five dimensions of ambulatory care from which errors may…
Descriptors: Safety, Diagnostic Tests, Patients, Risk
Arnetz, Judith E.; Zhdanova, Ludmila S.; Elsouhag, Dalia; Lichtenberg, Peter; Luborsky, Mark R.; Arnetz, Bengt B. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose of the Study: In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the role of safety culture in preventing costly adverse events, such as medication errors and falls, among nursing home residents. However, little is known regarding critical organizational determinants of a positive safety culture in nursing homes. The aim of this study…
Descriptors: Safety, Nursing Homes, Health Facilities, Organizational Climate
Gunter, Jennifer – Exceptional Parent, 2008
Medication adherence, taking medications exactly as prescribed, is hard for everyone; even one-third of doctors do not take their own prescriptions correctly. For parents of children with special needs, a variety of factors may be involved including cost, complicated instructions, the number of doses a day, and concerns over side effects. In…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Drug Therapy, Parent Role, Hospitalized Children
Crowell, Debra L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The American Nurse Association's (ANA) provisions outline the commitment expected of nurses to protect the community from harm. Medication administration coincides with patient safety as a compelling obligation in nursing practice. The study's purpose was to examine retention of medication safety knowledge among first year nursing students, after…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Drug Therapy, Associate Degrees, Statistical Analysis
Tian, Renran – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Various healthcare IT systems have been developed to reduce medication errors. Although these systems can help to improve patient safety and reduce adverse medical events, new problems are also generated with their utilizations. One key problem during IT implementation is the change of working process. Although many of these changes are recorded…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Nursing, Information Technology, Drug Therapy
Jones, Katherine J.; Cochran, Gary; Hicks, Rodney W.; Mueller, Keith J. – Journal of Rural Health, 2004
Context:Low service volume, insufficient information technology, and limited human resources are barriers to learning about and correcting system failures in small rural hospitals. This paper describes the implementation of and initial findings from a voluntary medication error reporting program developed by the Nebraska Center for Rural Health…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Human Resources, Hospitals
Melius, Joyce – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the relationships that exist between mathematics anxiety and nurse self-efficacy for mathematics, and the medication calculation performance of acute care nurses. This research used a quantitative correlational research design and involved a sample of 84 acute care nurses, LVNs and RNs, from a…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Mathematics Skills, Self Efficacy, Nurses
Huang, Yuan-Han – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study focused on the clinical workflow evolutions when implementing the health information technology (HIT). The study especially emphasized on administrating medication when the electronic health record (EHR) systems were adopted at rural healthcare facilities. Mixed-mode research methods, such as survey, observation, and focus group, were…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Records (Forms), Mixed Methods Research, Surveys