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dc.contributor.authorWennberg Capellades, Laia
dc.contributor.authorFuster-Linares, Pilar
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez-Higueras, Encarna
dc.contributor.authorGallart Fernández-Puebla, Albert
dc.contributor.authorLlaurado Serra, Mireia
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-22T16:24:47Z
dc.date.available2022-11-22T16:24:47Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationWennberg Capellades, Laia; Fuster-Linares, Pilar; Rodríguez-Higueras, Encarna [et al.]. Where do nursing students make mistakes when calculating drug doses? A retrospective study. BMC Nursing, 2022, 21, 309. Disponible en: <https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-022-01085-9>. Fecha de acceso: 22 nov. 2022. DOI: 10.1186/s12912-022-01085-9ca
dc.identifier.issn1472-6955ca
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/3501
dc.description.abstractBackground: Research internationally shows that nursing students find dosage calculation difficult. Identifying the specific aspects of dose calculation procedures that are most commonly associated with errors would enable teaching to be targeted where it is most needed, thus improving students’ calculation skills. The aim of this study was to analyze where specifically nursing students make mistakes when calculating drug doses. Method: Retrospective analysis of written examination papers including dosage calculation exercises from years 1, 2, and 3 of a nursing degree program. Exercises were analyzed for errors in relation to 23 agreed categories reflecting different kinds of calculation or steps in the calculation process. We conducted a descriptive and bivariate analysis of results, examining the relationship between the presence of errors and the proportion of correct and incorrect final answers. Results: A total of 285 exam papers including 1034 calculation exercises were reviewed. After excluding those that had been left blank, a total of 863 exercises were analyzed in detail. A correct answer was given in 455 exercises (52.7%), although this varied enormously depending on the type of exercise: 89.2% of basic dose calculations were correct, compared with just 2.9% of those involving consideration of maximum concentration. The most common errors were related to unit conversion, more complex concepts such as maximum concentration and minimum dilution, or failure to contextualize the answer to the clinical case. Other frequent errors involved not extracting the key information from the question, not including the units when giving their answer, and not understanding the question. In general, fewer errors in basic dose calculations were made by students at later stages of the degree program. Conclusions: Students struggle with more complex dose calculations. The main errors detected were related to understanding the task and the key concepts involved, as well as not following the correct steps when solving the problem.en
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dc.language.isoengca
dc.publisherSpringer Natureca
dc.relation.ispartofBMC Nursingca
dc.relation.ispartofseries21
dc.relation.urihttps://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-022-01085-9ca
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.en
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dc.subject.otherCàlcul de dosisca
dc.subject.otherEducació d'infermeriaca
dc.subject.otherErrors de medicacióca
dc.subject.otherEstudiants d'infermeriaca
dc.subject.otherSeguretat del pacientca
dc.subject.otherCálculo de dosises
dc.subject.otherEducación de enfermeríaes
dc.subject.otherErrores de medicaciónes
dc.subject.otherEstudiantes de enfermeríaes
dc.subject.otherSeguridad del pacientees
dc.subject.otherDosage calculationen
dc.subject.otherNurse educationen
dc.subject.otherMedication errorsen
dc.subject.otherNursing studentsen
dc.subject.otherPatient safetyen
dc.titleWhere do nursing students make mistakes when calculating drug doses? A retrospective studyen
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dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionca
dc.rights.accessLevelinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01085-9ca


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