Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors

Nurse's Role Clinical Trial

Official title:

Medication Safety Climate: Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors Among Nurses in Intensive and Critical Care Units

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06366607
• Other study ID #: 0306066
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Matrouh University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

High-alert medications are drugs that may lead to serious harm when they are wrongly administered to patients. Safe medication administration is the crucial role of nursing staff.

Description:

High-alert medications are drugs that may lead to serious harm when they are wrongly administered to patients. Safe medication administration is the crucial role of nursing staff. This study aims to investigate the relationships between medication safety climate and nurses' knowledge about high-alert medications with managing their administration and errors.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nurses

• willing to participate in the study

• work in surgical intensive and critical care units

• Sign a consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Nurses

• Work in outpatient units and other units

• Did not sign a consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Competence
• Error Disclosure
• Knowledge
• Nurse's Role
• Practice Nurse's Scope

Intervention

Other:
• high-alert medication administration
high-alert medication administration

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University	Mersa Matruh

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Matrouh University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Questionnaire to measure nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration	Nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration as assessed binary scale.	one month
Primary	Questionnaire to measure medication safety climate	Medication safety climate as assessed using five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1 point) to strongly agree (5 points).	one month
Primary	Questionnaire to measure nurses' competency	Nurses' competency during the administration of high-alert medications as assessed using five- Likert scales ((0 = not appropriate at all in administering high-alert medications up to 4 = very often appropriate in administering high-alert medications)	one month
Primary	observational check list to measure nurses' practice during administration of high-alert medications	Observing nurses' practice during the administration of high alert medications as assessed using five Likert scales (0=inappropriate practice up to 4=appropriate practice)	one month
Primary	Questionnaire to measure errors associated with administering high-alert medications	Errors associated with administering high-alert medications as assessed using a binary scale ( Yes=1 , No=0)	one month