PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
- Katherine A. Kreis, MSN, RN, CHSE is a student in the UTA CONHI PhD in Nursing program and Clinical Simulation Faculty in the CONHI Smart Hospital for N3632 Clinical Nursing Foundations. She is the principal investigator (PI) for this project.
- Paula Wyman, MSN, RN, is a student in the UTA CONHI PhD in Nursing program and the (Accelerated Online) Course Lead Faculty for N3632 Clinical Nursing Foundations. She is a Co-PI for this project.
- Michael Holmes, MSN, RN is the (Campus Based) Course Lead Faculty for N3632 Clinical Nursing Foundations. He is a Co-PI for this project.
ABSTRACT
An estimated 7,000 to 9,000 deaths related to medication errors (ME) occur each year in the United States (Tariq et al., 2022). Additionally, there is an economic impact estimated at $42 billion USD annually (Donaldson et al., 2017). Imparting consistent safety processes for medication administration (MA) to student nurses, and evaluating their performance with a standardized measure, is an integral part of nursing education (Sears et al., 2010). A review by Sulosaari et al. (2012) described the difficulty that nursing students and initial licensure nurses have with the complex processes of MA and presumed a connection to higher incidence of ME in hospitalized patients.
Goodstone and Goodstone (2013) developed a set of metrics to use in simulation-based experience (SBE) known as the Medication Administration Safety Assessment Tool (MASAT). The prevalence of ME and resultant deaths make it vital to evaluate learners on the specific safety tasks of MA. Research has shown that up to 80% of senior nursing students were unable to successfully perform MA without error (Schneidereith, 2021). A modification of the MASAT to include current evidence-based safety steps, including a validation of this tool using Clinical Faculty as research participants, was initiated June 2023.
Project Volunteers
The following volunteers assisted in the creation of video recordings for this project:
- Jacob Gimlin
- Katelyn Kreis
- Camera Johnson, MSN, RN
- Riddhi Patel, BSN, RN
References
The following reference works were cited:
- Donaldson, L. J., Kelley, E. T., Dhingra-Kumar, N., Kieny, M.-P., & Sheikh, A. (2017). Medication Without Harm: WHO’s Third Global Patient Safety Challenge. The Lancet, 389(10080), 1680-1681. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(17)31047-4
- Goodstone, L., & Goodstone, M. S. (2013). Use of Simulation to Develop a Medication Administration Safety Assessment Tool. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 9(12), e609-e615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2013.04.017
- Schneidereith, T. A. (2021). Medication administration behaviors in prelicensure nursing students: A longitudinal, cohort study. Nurse Education in Practice, 56, 103189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103189
- Sears, K., Goldsworthy, S., & Goodman, W. M. (2010). The relationship between simulation in nursing education and medication safety. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 49(1), 52-55. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20090918-12
- Sulosaari, V., Kajander, S., Hupli, M., Huupponen, R., & Leino-Kilpi, H. (2012). Nurse students’ medication competence–an integrative review of the associated factors. Nurse Education Today, 32(4), 399-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2011.05.016
- Tariq, R. A., Vashisht, R., Sinha, A., & Scherbak, Y. (2022). Medication Dispensing Errors And Prevention. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519065