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The learning experiences of student nurses in pediatric medication management: A qualitative study
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Background Traditionally, the 'five rights' (right patient, right route, right drug, right time, and right dose) principle is taught to be practiced during every medication administration process. Nursing educators use this principle to evaluate student performance. However, health care unit factors and education system characteristics that can contribute to student errors should not be underestimated. Students often felt stressed when medicating children during clinical practicum. The voices of these students are rarely represented.Objective To understand students' experiences and perceptions of medication administration during their pediatric clinical practicum.Design A descriptive qualitative study design was adopted.Setting A university in Northern Taiwan.Participants A total of 34 undergraduate students who had completed a pediatric clinical practicum participated in a one-on-one interview.Methods Each student was interviewed according to a semi-structured interview guide and was encouraged to disclose individual feelings and thoughts toward their experiences in pediatric medication administration.Results Eight themes emerged. The findings suggest that to decrease students' anxiety and increase their competence, pediatric instructors should improve their teaching strategies to better prepare students for clinical training. Providing self-directed learning activities and resources to improve students' familiarity with medication and medication safety knowledge is necessary. Instructors should provide students with a secure environment to discuss their medication errors.Conclusion The 'nine rights' should be taught in fundamental nursing courses to enhance students' awareness during the medication administration process, and students should continue to practice the 'nine rights' in later pediatric clinical courses. Equal importance should be given to system failures that impact patient safety.
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“In particular, weight-based dosage calculation is the area prone to error in pediatric drug administration, and as a single calculation error can lead to a serious adverse drug event, which should be treated as a fundamental core competency [5].”
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“In addition, limited opportunities for active participation may make it difficult for students to translate theoretical learning into practical competence [4,5].”
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“Even when nursing students possess substantial theoretical knowledge, they often find it difficult to directly perform medication management tasks—such as medication preparation and administration—during clinical practicum, and they have limited opportunities to observe how medication administration is handled or reported [5].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lin, F.-Y., Wu, W.-W., Lin, H.-R., & Lee, T.-Y.
- Affiliations
- National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science (TW)
- Corresponding author
- Lee, Tzu-Ying
- Venue
- Nurse Education Today
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-05
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 744-748
- ISSN
- 0260-6917 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2052530749
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nurse Education Today (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Nursing education and management
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Medical Education
- Keywords
- nursing students, pediatric drug administration, five rights of medication administration, medication errors, clinical practicum, nursing students' experiences, nursing education, drug safety, self-directed learning, student anxiety, system failure
- MeSH terms
- Child, Drug Therapy, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Humans, Learning, Students, Nursing
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