Effect of Vital Drugs Prescription Principles Multimedia Application-Based Instruction and Lecture on Nursing Students Learning Outcomes

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Abstract: Title: Effect of vital drugs prescription principles multimedia application-based instruction and lecture on nursing students learning outcomes Introduction: Medication errors are risk factors for patients’ health and may have irrecoverable effects. These errors include, medication miscalculations by nurses and nursing students. This study aimed to design a multimedia application in the field of education for vital drugs prescription principles in order to compare its effectiveness with the lecture method. Methods: In this study, 82 nursing students of Tabriz medical university on their second and third semester, in 2015 were selected and they were pre-tested by a researcher-made multiple-choice questionnaire on knowledge of drug administration principles and ability of medicinal calculations before training and then students were divided through a random block design into two groups of intervention (education with designed software) and control (lecturing) based on the mean grade of previous semesters and the score of pre-test. The knowledge and ability post-test was performed by the same questions after 4 weeks of training. The data were analyzed by using Spss-20 and Independent sample t-test, paired-samples t-test, chi-2, Anova and Ancova. Results: The results showed that, average scores of drug calculation ability significantly increased after training in both groups of experimental and control (p<0.05). However, there was no significant difference between the two groups of experimental and control in terms of the mean of these scores (p>0.05). The results also showed that there was no significant difference between the two groups of experimental and control in terms of average scores of pre-test and post-test in knowledge of drug administration (p>0.05).

Conclusion: In this present study, students in both groups of intervention and control had the same and equivalent progress in the drug calculation ability. It seems that, can be used successfully training methods using software such as lecture in the field of education for drug calculations to nursing students