PRN Medicines Optimization and Nurse Education
Medicines management is a high-risk and error prone process in healthcare settings, where nurses play an important role to preserve patient safety. In order to create a safe healthcare environment, nurses should recognize challenges that they face in this process, understand factors leading to medic...
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| author | Mojtaba Vaismoradi Sue Jordan Flores Vizcaya-Moreno Ingrid Friedl Manela Glarcher |
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| description | Medicines management is a high-risk and error prone process in healthcare settings, where nurses play an important role to preserve patient safety. In order to create a safe healthcare environment, nurses should recognize challenges that they face in this process, understand factors leading to medication errors, identify errors and systematically address them to prevent their future occurrence. “<i>Pro re nata</i>” (PRN, as needed) medicine administration is a relatively neglected area of medicines management in nursing practice, yet has a high potential for medication errors. Currently, the international literature indicates a lack of knowledge of both the competencies required for PRN medicines management and the optimum educational strategies to prepare students for PRN medicines management. To address this deficiency in the literature, the authors have presented a discussion on nurses’ roles in medication safety and the significance and purpose of PRN medications, and suggest a model for preparing nursing students in safe PRN medicines management. The discussion takes into account patient participation and nurse competencies required to safeguard PRN medication practice, providing a background for further research on how to improve the safety of PRN medicines management in clinical practice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d7c395d98dec4803bad6ef10e6cbe8b12023-11-20T18:36:58ZengMDPI AGPharmacy2226-47872020-10-018420110.3390/pharmacy8040201PRN Medicines Optimization and Nurse EducationMojtaba Vaismoradi0Sue Jordan1Flores Vizcaya-Moreno2Ingrid Friedl3Manela Glarcher4Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Nord University, 8049 Bodø, NorwayDepartment of Nursing, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UKNursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Alicante, 03080 Alicante, SpainHospital Graz II, A Regional Hospital of the Health Care Company of Styria, 8020 Graz, AustriaInstitute of Nursing Science and Practice, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, AustriaMedicines management is a high-risk and error prone process in healthcare settings, where nurses play an important role to preserve patient safety. In order to create a safe healthcare environment, nurses should recognize challenges that they face in this process, understand factors leading to medication errors, identify errors and systematically address them to prevent their future occurrence. “<i>Pro re nata</i>” (PRN, as needed) medicine administration is a relatively neglected area of medicines management in nursing practice, yet has a high potential for medication errors. Currently, the international literature indicates a lack of knowledge of both the competencies required for PRN medicines management and the optimum educational strategies to prepare students for PRN medicines management. To address this deficiency in the literature, the authors have presented a discussion on nurses’ roles in medication safety and the significance and purpose of PRN medications, and suggest a model for preparing nursing students in safe PRN medicines management. The discussion takes into account patient participation and nurse competencies required to safeguard PRN medication practice, providing a background for further research on how to improve the safety of PRN medicines management in clinical practice.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/8/4/201educationmedicines managementnursepatient safety<i>pro re nata</i>PRN |
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| title | PRN Medicines Optimization and Nurse Education |
| title_full | PRN Medicines Optimization and Nurse Education |
| title_fullStr | PRN Medicines Optimization and Nurse Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | PRN Medicines Optimization and Nurse Education |
| title_short | PRN Medicines Optimization and Nurse Education |
| title_sort | prn medicines optimization and nurse education |
| topic | education medicines management nurse patient safety <i>pro re nata</i> PRN |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/8/4/201 |
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