Clinical trial NCT06366607: Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors
Official title: Medication Safety Climate: Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors Among Nurses in Intensive and Critical Care Units
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Knowledge
Practice Nurse's Scope
Competence
Nurse's Role
Error Disclosure
Keywords: Medication safety climate
Managing, High-alert medication
Administration
Errors
Nurses' role
Lead sponsor: Matrouh University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-16
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: A sample of 300 nurses was enrolled in the current study. The nurses were willing to participate in the study and provided their agreement by informed consent.

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed description: 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Questionnaire to measure nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration
timeFrame: one month
measure: Questionnaire to measure medication safety climate
timeFrame: one month
measure: Questionnaire to measure nurses' competency
timeFrame: one month
measure: observational check list to measure nurses' practice during administration of high-alert medications
timeFrame: one month
measure: Questionnaire to measure errors associated with administering high-alert medications
timeFrame: one month
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mersa Matruh
country: Egypt
facility: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University
Study officials:
affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University, Egypt
name: Nagah Abd El-Fattah Mohamed Aly, Ph.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University, Egypt
name: Wael M. Lotfy, Ph.D
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt
name: Safaa M. El-Shanawany, Ph.D
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt
name: Maha Ghanem, Ph.D
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Psychatric Nursing and Mental health , Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt
name: Hanaa Abbass, Ph.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University , Egypt
name: Maysa Elbiaa, Ph.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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