There is a growing trend in health care to manage illness in a less invasive and more pharmacological manner.
Nurses are generally the practitioners who give the medication.
Errors in drug administration account for the largest percentage of mistakes that nurses make. Inappropriate use of medications results in an unnecessarily high morbidity and mortality. This proposal describes plans to develop the first of what is conceived to be a series of web-based interactive programs designed to enable nurses and nursing students to gain skills necessary for the pharmacological management of patients. The first program will involve pain management. Pain is a problem of great concern to health care consumers, and it is generally treated by the administration of drugs.