The research article by (Simonsen & Daehlin, 2014) did a comparative study on knowledge of medication and errors as it relates to working register nurses and graduate nurses the study was conducted to compare and understand the correlation between the skills in medication management between a two year and graduate nurses serious errors were made when medication was dispensed to patients .Simonsen discussed some of the reason in knowledge deficit in medication management was due to difference in nursing education and experience.
The graduate and working nurses were given a pharmacology test to determine proficiency in medication management the study found that errors occurred because of deficiency in these areas: of lack of medication …show more content…
Bachelor programs (Simonsen & Daehlin, 2014)sometimes pharmacist and physician taught pharmacology course focused on ‘doing’ not critical thinking as it relates to full understanding of medication management. The article suggest bachelor degree programs after the first year should focus on drug management extensively and provide more hands on skills in hospitals, clinics etc. this may help to not only increase and improve medication management but, reduce errors. I believe that pharmacology should be taught by nursing instructors and not pharmacist because pharmacist are trained differently from nurses, because pharmacist are educated in making and dispensing medication; but the nurses are the first line of defense for the patient in catching and preventing medication errors. Graduate nurses scored low in the area of rules and regulation due to the lack of experience If graduates were required to shadow the working nurses to get an idea of how to dispense medication the rules and regulations will fall into place once graduate nurses become familiar with dispensing medications but in order to improve medication management field experience for the graduate nurse is …show more content…
The nursing programs when it comes to pharmacology whether associate or bachelor program teach pharmacology the same way. As far as work experience graduate nurses need to use their assessment skills to critically think as it relates to medication in the body ; working nurses and graduates should be mandated to do a continuing medication course to keep abreast on better ways to manage medication and prevent errors in order to improve patient safety. In the hospital, nursing homes, clinics etc more skill competency to evaluate how nurses are administering medication ; along with oral presentation for how, why, and action of certain medications will help critical thinking. I believe some of the medication management errors is due to nurses being complacent instead of striving for self-improvement. Nursing is a continuum of learning as nurses it is our obligation to try to resolve this problem with medication management because in order to teach patients about their medication we as nurses have to understand not just pharmacology theory but the mechanism and reasoning behind why a certain medication works for a particular disease process so medication management updated in-services or CEU’s as much as possible. Both
The graduate and working nurses were given a pharmacology test to determine proficiency in medication management the study found that errors occurred because of deficiency in these areas: of lack of medication …show more content…
Bachelor programs (Simonsen & Daehlin, 2014)sometimes pharmacist and physician taught pharmacology course focused on ‘doing’ not critical thinking as it relates to full understanding of medication management. The article suggest bachelor degree programs after the first year should focus on drug management extensively and provide more hands on skills in hospitals, clinics etc. this may help to not only increase and improve medication management but, reduce errors. I believe that pharmacology should be taught by nursing instructors and not pharmacist because pharmacist are trained differently from nurses, because pharmacist are educated in making and dispensing medication; but the nurses are the first line of defense for the patient in catching and preventing medication errors. Graduate nurses scored low in the area of rules and regulation due to the lack of experience If graduates were required to shadow the working nurses to get an idea of how to dispense medication the rules and regulations will fall into place once graduate nurses become familiar with dispensing medications but in order to improve medication management field experience for the graduate nurse is …show more content…
The nursing programs when it comes to pharmacology whether associate or bachelor program teach pharmacology the same way. As far as work experience graduate nurses need to use their assessment skills to critically think as it relates to medication in the body ; working nurses and graduates should be mandated to do a continuing medication course to keep abreast on better ways to manage medication and prevent errors in order to improve patient safety. In the hospital, nursing homes, clinics etc more skill competency to evaluate how nurses are administering medication ; along with oral presentation for how, why, and action of certain medications will help critical thinking. I believe some of the medication management errors is due to nurses being complacent instead of striving for self-improvement. Nursing is a continuum of learning as nurses it is our obligation to try to resolve this problem with medication management because in order to teach patients about their medication we as nurses have to understand not just pharmacology theory but the mechanism and reasoning behind why a certain medication works for a particular disease process so medication management updated in-services or CEU’s as much as possible. Both