Assessment of Impact of Structured Education Regarding Medication Errors among Selected Nursing Colleges of Kalaburagi

Abstract

Purpose: Patient safety is a significant challenge facing healthcare systems today. It is the nurse’s role to provide the best possible quality of care and patient safety. They can play an important role in identification, prevention and reporting of MEs. The study was to assess the knowledge of MEs among nursing students, to improve the knowledge of ME among nursing students and to improve the medication error reporting skills of nursing students. Subjects and Methods: It was a Prospective Eduational study conducted among 186 nursing students of 3 different nursing colleges of KALABURAGI city. Data collection form including self-structured questionnaire were used. Pre-test followed by power point presentation on all aspects of ME education was done. After a gap of 2 weeks  post test was conducted. Following evaluation, data was tempted into the Microsoft Excel Sheet and analyzed using IBM SPSS 20.0 and  paired student’s T – test and  ANOVA was applied for interpreting data . Results: Mean age of participants was 20.6 years and 96 of the students were males.100 students were from 3rd year and 86 were from 2nd year BSc nursing. Students had good knowledge and attitude towards ME and its reporting but poor practice.3rd year students had a better knowledge compared to 2nd year. In pretest mean knowledge score was 9.21.There was a statistically very highly significant difference in mean knowledge scores between pre and post-test (P<0.001). A positive change in student’s perception and practice towards ME reporting was observed in posttest. Conclusions: Despite sufficient knowledge and favorable attitude towards medication error reporting there is still an under reporting of medication error when it comes to practice.