NCT00845494

Efficacy of a Behavioral Based Education Intervention to Decrease Medication History Errors Among Professional Nurses.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Waukesha Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if a behavioral knowledge based education intervention will decrease medication transcription errors among professional nurses when admitting elder patients to a hospital. The hypothesis is those professional nurses who receive the behavioral-cognitive eduction medication taking intervention will have fewer medication errors than those professional nurses who do not.

Conditions

• Medication Errors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	cognitive behavioral intervention	The intervention will consist of an hour of cognitive behavioral education. The first 15 minutes spent discussing cases examples of medication errors. The next 15 minutes will include identifying old rules or assumptions nurses have about medication history obtainment. The next 15 minutes will be utilized reviewing a medication tool to be used, and the last 15 minutes will be discussing techniques to help nurse obtain information from elderly patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-02-01
• Completion: 2010-10-01
• First posted: 2009-02-18
• Last updated: 2009-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States