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

Waukesha Memorial Hospital

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Medication Errors

Treatments: Behavioral: cognitive behavioral intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00845494

554

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nurses working 20 hours a week or more

Exclusion criteria

• Nurses working less than 20 hours a week
• Nurse working as a float or pool nurse

Trial design

140 participants in 1 patient group

medication history education

Other group

Description:

Four hospital unit nurses asked to participate in the study. Two nursing units will receive the cognitive behavioral intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: cognitive behavioral intervention