Investigation of the nursing interns'knowledge about emergency medications / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To check the nursing interns′ knowledge about emergency medications. Methods A self-designed questionnaire was used to investigate the knowledge of emergency medications (including dosage, indications and usage) and learning demands in 258 nursing interns. Results The mean score of all students was 18.06 ± 3.35,accounting for 82.2%(212/258)nursing interns expected to obtain the knowledge by the clinical teachers.Both different education backgrounds and training periods didn′t have significant influence on the scores of emergency medications. There were significant differences in total scores among practice nurses from different areas (F=2.87, P<0.05). Conclusion Generally,the nursing interns are not qualified enough to know emergency medications.We should focus on training nursing interns in pharmacological knowledge and the ability of their knowledge management cognition.