Effectiveness of Training Program for Staff Nurses Regarding Dealing with High Alert Medication

Abstract

Background:Medications are part of the patient treatment plan, appropriate management about it is critical to ensure patient safety. High-alert medications (HAM) are drugs that bear a heightened risk of causing significant patient harm when they are used in error.Objectives:The present study aims at assessing the effectiveness of training program for nursing staff regarding dealing with HAM. Subjects:180 nurses were included in the study. Methods: Four tools were used to collect data for this study; needs' assessment tool, pre/post and follow up test, observational checklist and experts' opinnionaire sheet. Results:Needs assessment was done and was taking into consideration. Immediately after program implementation, nurses' knowledge and performance have highly statistically significant improvement regard different dimensions reflecting dealing with HAM, with slightly declined at the follow up phase but still higher than pre program phase. Conclusion:The present study assured that the training program was effective in improving staff nurses knowledge and performance when dealing with HAM. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Key words:Training Program Nurses. Patient Safety.High Alert Medication.