Pediatric Nursing Students' Self-efficacy Regarding Pediatric Medication Administration and, Clinical Comfort and Worry: A Study on a Two-group Pre-post-test Design Comparing Nurse and Peer Mentoring

Karabuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mentoring; Comfort; Medication Administration

Treatments: Other: Peer mentoring; Other: Nurse mentoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05771870

KBU-OOSahin-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children are a particularly vulnerable population to medication mistakes, and it is critical to improve the self-efficacy, clinical comfort, and worry levels of student nurses who will care with them. As a result, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of postgraduate nursing students' and clinical nurses' mentoring practice on pediatric nursing students' self-efficacy in pediatric medication administration, clinical comfort, and worry levels. The nurse mentoring group finished the study with 70 students, while the peer mentoring group (postgraduate nursing students) completed the study with 73 students, for a total of 143 students. For data collection, the "Participant Information Form," the "Medication Administration Self-Efficacy Scale in Children for Nursing Students," and the "Pediatric Nursing Students Clinical Comfort and Worry Tool" were utilized. The data is still being analyzed.

Enrollment: 143 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Third-year student at Department of Nursing
• Taking a Child Health and Disease Nursing course
• Successful completion of the Pharmacology course in the first year (2nd semester)
• Participating in research as a volunteer

Exclusion criteria

• Failure in the pharmacology course

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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143 participants in 2 patient groups

Peer mentoring

Experimental group

Description:

The clinical practice day of the Child Health and Diseases Nursing course included mentoring practice. This is a 3rd-grade (5th semester) course that includes 6 hours of theory and 8 hours of practice in the applicable curriculum. The clinical practice of the Child Health and Diseases Nursing course is carried out for 14 weeks (one semester) 1 day a week at the Children's Units of the Karabük Training and Research Hospital in the program in which the study was done. Throughout all clinical practice days, mentors chosen from graduate students followed the students in the peer mentorship group during the medication preparation and administration processes, providing feedback on their positive, negative, or inadequacies.

Treatment:

Other: Peer mentoring

Nurse mentoring

Experimental group

Description:

The clinical practice day of the Child Health and Diseases Nursing course included mentoring practice. This is a 3rd-grade (5th semester) course that includes 6 hours of theory and 8 hours of practice in the applicable curriculum. The clinical practice of the Child Health and Diseases Nursing course is carried out for 14 weeks (one semester) 1 day a week at the Children's Units of the Karabük Training and Research Hospital in the program in which the study was done. Mentors from the clinical nursing community attended the students in the nurse mentoring group during the drug preparation and administration processes and provided feedback on their positive, negative, or inadequacies.

Treatment:

Other: Nurse mentoring