Author Affiliations: Clinical Assistant Professor (Dr Prochnow), Clinical Assistant Professor (Dr Harden), and Director of Undergraduate Studies (Dr Riley), Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership, University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor.
Nurse Educ. 2024;49(3):E158-E160. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001346. Epub 2022 Dec 21.
Nurses play a vital role in the medication administration process and are frequently involved in adverse drug events (ADEs). One identified cause of ADEs is lack of pharmacology knowledge received during their training and/or failure to maintain this core information: the latter cause has been described as skill decay.
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement an online pharmacology review program to maintain and/or improve nursing students' pharmacology knowledge, thus decreasing skill decay over the school's summer break.
Nursing students enrolled in a 4-year BSN program participated in a virtual pharmacology knowledge review program consisting of a pretest survey, learning modules, quizzes, and a final posttest survey.
Comparisons showed statistical significance in test score improvement from pretest to posttest.
This project demonstrates that a review program can enhance nursing students' pharmacology knowledge throughout their summer break. It adds to the limited data about the need for pharmacology programs to decrease skill decay.
护士在给药过程中发挥着至关重要的作用，经常会涉及到药物不良事件（ADE）。ADE 的一个已知原因是护士在培训期间缺乏药理学知识，或者未能保持这一核心信息：后者被描述为技能衰退。
本质量改进项目的目的是实施在线药理学复习计划，以维持和/或提高护理学生的药理学知识，从而减少学校暑假期间的技能衰退。
参加为期 4 年的 BSN 项目的护理学生参与了一个虚拟的药理学知识复习计划，该计划包括前测调查、学习模块、测验和最终的后测调查。
比较显示，从前测到后测，测试成绩的提高具有统计学意义。
该项目表明，复习计划可以在整个暑假期间提高护理学生的药理学知识。它补充了关于需要药理学计划来减少技能衰退的数据。
