Medication dosage calculation among nursing students: does digital technology make a difference? A literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient safety is a major part of nursing care and following patients' medication orders is considered one of the greatest responsibilities of individual nurses and nursing Failure to make safe drug calculations poses serious risks to patient safety. It is therefore important to strengthen nursing students' numeracy skills and conceptual abilities during their education. Research suggests that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in promoting nursing students' knowledge and medication dosage calculation (MDC) skills. The present review aims to identify and critically evaluate research investigating how the use of digital technologies informs the development of nursing students' MDC skills.

Methods

A systematic literature review was performed wi

SUBMITTER: Stake-Nilsson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125812 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature