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Nurses’ educational preparation for a medication education role: Findings from a national survey

Nurses’ educational preparation for a medication education role: Findings from a national survey
Nurses’ educational preparation for a medication education role: Findings from a national survey
Nurses have a potentially important contribution to make to educating patients about medications. This nursing role is likely to acquire increasing significance as the number of nurses independently prescribing medicines grows, in addition to those nurses occupying autonomous and extended roles that involve ongoing assessment and monitoring of patients’ medicine-taking behaviour. As part of a study1commissioned to evaluate nurses’ educational preparation for, and practice of, medication education, a national survey of nurse education institutions was undertaken. A postal questionnaire was distributed to identified individuals within 51 education institutions in England. Respondents were asked about a number of curriculum design and delivery factors related to subjects central to medication education: pharmacology, patient education and communication skills. Analysis highlighted a number of themes: the teaching of pharmacology is generally integrated within other curricular modules; respondents were dissatisfied with insufficient curricular time devoted to taught pharmacology; the importance of lecturers’ ability to apply theory to practice; a lack of clarity concerning pharmacology learning outcomes applied to medication education; and respondents’ perceptions that opportunities for integrating pharmacology knowledge, patient education and communication skills were available within practice settings. The significance and implications of the findings are discussed in the context of current educational policy.
medication education, nurse prescribing, educating patients, national survey, nurses' education
0260-6917
143-154
Latter, S.
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Rycroft-Malone, J.
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Yerrell, P.
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Shaw, D.
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Latter, S.
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Rycroft-Malone, J.
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Yerrell, P.
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Shaw, D.
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Latter, S., Rycroft-Malone, J., Yerrell, P. and Shaw, D. (2001) Nurses’ educational preparation for a medication education role: Findings from a national survey. Nurse Education Today, 21 (2), 143-154. (doi:10.1054/nedt.2000.0528).

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Nurses have a potentially important contribution to make to educating patients about medications. This nursing role is likely to acquire increasing significance as the number of nurses independently prescribing medicines grows, in addition to those nurses occupying autonomous and extended roles that involve ongoing assessment and monitoring of patients’ medicine-taking behaviour. As part of a study1commissioned to evaluate nurses’ educational preparation for, and practice of, medication education, a national survey of nurse education institutions was undertaken. A postal questionnaire was distributed to identified individuals within 51 education institutions in England. Respondents were asked about a number of curriculum design and delivery factors related to subjects central to medication education: pharmacology, patient education and communication skills. Analysis highlighted a number of themes: the teaching of pharmacology is generally integrated within other curricular modules; respondents were dissatisfied with insufficient curricular time devoted to taught pharmacology; the importance of lecturers’ ability to apply theory to practice; a lack of clarity concerning pharmacology learning outcomes applied to medication education; and respondents’ perceptions that opportunities for integrating pharmacology knowledge, patient education and communication skills were available within practice settings. The significance and implications of the findings are discussed in the context of current educational policy.

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Published date: February 2001
Keywords: medication education, nurse prescribing, educating patients, national survey, nurses' education

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Local EPrints ID: 9567
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/9567
ISSN: 0260-6917
PURE UUID: dfadda73-a35d-4321-9692-a560c74d3bd1
ORCID for S. Latter: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0973-0512

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Date deposited: 24 May 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:16

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Author: S. Latter ORCID iD
Author: J. Rycroft-Malone
Author: P. Yerrell
Author: D. Shaw

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