Student nurses’ knowledge acquisition on oral medication administration: comparison of lecture demonstration vs. video demonstration

Autor: Ravilal Devananda Udeshika Priyadarshani Sugathapala, Mattaka Gamage Ruwini Chandrika
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: BMC Nursing, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1472-6955
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-020-00527-6
Popis: Abstract Background Oral Medication administration is one of the paramount nursing procedures, where nurses must pay their utmost commitment. The vital aims are to reduce medication errors and ensure patient safety. The objectives of this study were to evaluate whether the nursing students could learn and retain the basic guidelines for oral medication administration when they are taught using a video-assisted teaching method compared with the lecture-demonstration method and to assess the students’ attitudes towards the two types of teaching methods. Methods This study was conducted as a quasi-experimental study with a pre and post-test design. Forty-five students in the first year of the bachelor’s degree in nursing programme participated. All the participants completed a self- administered questionnaire, including socio demographic data and questions of oral medication administration. Subsequently, participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Oral medication administration procedure was taught using two different teaching methods. Finally, the post-test knowledge scores of both groups were assessed and analysed using the paired-sample t-test. Results The results revealed that there was no significant difference in terms of age, gender and type of residence of students in the two groups. When comparing the pre-test mean score and post-test mean score using paired sample t-test, there was a statistically significant difference in both video demonstration group (t = − 4.533, p
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