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NCT Number: NCT06366607

Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors

High-alert medications are drugs that may lead to serious harm when they are wrongly administered to patients. Safe medication administration is the crucial role of nursing staff.

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Key information

Conditions

Knowledge Competence Error Disclosure Nurse's Role Practice Nurse's Scope

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University

Marsá Maţrūḩ, 002, Egypt

About this study

High-alert medications are drugs that may lead to serious harm when they are wrongly administered to patients. Safe medication administration is the crucial role of nursing staff. This study aims to investigate the relationships between medication safety climate and nurses' knowledge about high-alert medications with managing their administration and errors.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Nurses
  • willing to participate in the study
  • work in surgical intensive and critical care units
  • Sign a consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Nurses
  • Work in outpatient units and other units
  • Did not sign a consent

Treatment and study plan

high-alert medication administration

Other

high-alert medication administration

Primary outcomes

  1. Questionnaire to measure nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration

    Time frame: one month

    Nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration as assessed binary scale.

  2. Questionnaire to measure medication safety climate

    Time frame: one month

    Medication safety climate as assessed using five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1 point) to strongly agree (5 points).

  3. Questionnaire to measure nurses' competency

    Time frame: one month

    Nurses' competency during the administration of high-alert medications as assessed using five- Likert scales ((0 = not appropriate at all in administering high-alert medications up to 4 = very often appropriate in administering high-alert medications)

  4. observational check list to measure nurses' practice during administration of high-alert medications

    Time frame: one month

    Observing nurses' practice during the administration of high alert medications as assessed using five Likert scales (0=inappropriate practice up to 4=appropriate practice)

  5. Questionnaire to measure errors associated with administering high-alert medications

    Time frame: one month

    Errors associated with administering high-alert medications as assessed using a binary scale ( Yes=1 , No=0)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Matrouh University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Medication Safety Climate: Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors Among Nurses in Intensive and Critical Care Units

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Apr 16, 2024
Registry last updated
Apr 16, 2024

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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