Medication Errors
Conditions
Keywords
Medication history, medication errors, Reduction of admission medication history errors
Brief summary
The purpose of the study is to determine if a behavioral knowledge based education intervention will decrease medication transcription errors among professional nurses when admitting elder patients to a hospital. The hypothesis is those professional nurses who receive the behavioral-cognitive eduction medication taking intervention will have fewer medication errors than those professional nurses who do not.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALcognitive behavioral intervention
The intervention will consist of an hour of cognitive behavioral education. The first 15 minutes spent discussing cases examples of medication errors. The next 15 minutes will include identifying old rules or assumptions nurses have about medication history obtainment. The next 15 minutes will be utilized reviewing a medication tool to be used, and the last 15 minutes will be discussing techniques to help nurse obtain information from elderly patients.
Sponsors
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Nurses working 20 hours a week or more
Exclusion criteria
* Nurses working less than 20 hours a week * Nurse working as a float or pool nurse
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction in medication errors on admission medication history form after intervention | 1 year |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactKathy A Becker, PhD(c)
Outcome results
None listed