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Assessing Nursing Students' Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to design and validate a tool for assessing nursing students' self-perceptions about safe medication management.

Methods

A descriptive instrumental study was conducted involving construct definition, development of the tool, analysis of the content validity, and psychometric evaluation. Consensus regarding the content was obtained through a two-round Delphi process, and the resulting tool (the NURSPeM) was administered to nursing students to examine its internal consistency, temporal stability, and construct validity, the latter through exploratory factor analysis.

Results

Thirteen experts participated in the Delphi process, which yielded a tool comprising two questionnaires: (1) Self-perceptions about safe medication management (27 items) and (2) the frequency and learning of drug-dose calculation (13 items). The tool's psychometric properties were then examined based on responses from 559 nursing students. This analysis led to the elimination of three items from questionnaire 1, leaving a total of 24 items distributed across seven dimensions. All 13 items in questionnaire 2 were retained. Both questionnaires showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.894 and 0.893, respectively) and temporal stability (ICC = 0.894 and 0.846, respectively).

Conclusions

The NURSPeM is a valid and reliable tool for assessing nursing students' self-perceptions about safe medication management. It may be used to identify areas in which their training needs to be enhanced, and to evaluate the subsequent impact of new teaching initiatives.

SUBMITTER: Fuster-Linares P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9028847 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Assessing Nursing Students' Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM.

Fuster-Linares Pilar P Alfonso-Arias Cristina C Gallart Fernández-Puebla Alberto A Rodríguez-Higueras Encarna E García-Mayor Silvia S Font-Jimenez Isabel I Llaurado-Serra Mireia M

International journal of environmental research and public health 20220412 8

<h4>Objective</h4>The objective was to design and validate a tool for assessing nursing students' self-perceptions about safe medication management.<h4>Methods</h4>A descriptive instrumental study was conducted involving construct definition, development of the tool, analysis of the content validity, and psychometric evaluation. Consensus regarding the content was obtained through a two-round Delphi process, and the resulting tool (the NURSPeM) was administered to nursing students to examine its ...[more]

PMID: 35457531

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Dataset Information

Assessing Nursing Students' Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM.

Objective

Methods

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Assessing Nursing Students' Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM.

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