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

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- adm

SUBMITTER: Sugathapala RDUP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7788856 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature