Evaluating educational preparation for a health education role in practice: the case of medication education

Journal of Advanced Nursing - Tập 32 Số 5 - Trang 1282-1290 - 2000
Sue Latter1, Jo Rycroft‐Malone2, Paul Yerrell3, David Shaw4
1School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Southampton, Southampton, England
2Research and Development Fellow, Royal College of Nursing Institute, Oxford, England
3Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Primary Health Care, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Chalfont St Giles, England
4Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Studies, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Chalfont St Giles, England

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Evaluating educational preparation for a health education role in practice: the case of medication education Current health care policy and practice contexts in the UK point to the importance of nurses’ ability to make an effective contribution to educating patients about medication, as part of their role in health education and health promotion. Nurses’ potential contribution to this important activity will inevitably be dependent on knowledge and skills acquired during preregistration and postregistration programmes of education. Against this backdrop, changes in pre and postregistration nurse education in the UK in the past decade highlight the importance and timeliness of evaluating the adequacy of educational preparation for a medication role. This paper reports on the findings from an evaluation of UK educational preparation for a medication education role in practice. A case study design was used to investigate current educational preparation at three education institutions. Multiple methods of data collection at each site involved focus group discussions with lecturers and practitioners, individual interviews with key personnel, nonparticipant observation of teaching sessions, postobservation interviews with students and curriculum analysis. Findings highlighted the importance of a number of dimensions of preparation for practice of such a role: the need for sufficient taught pharmacology; opportunities for application and integration of prerequisite knowledge and skills; the importance of practice‐based learning; the need for an evidence‐based curriculum, and the importance of clarifying outcomes and competencies required for a medication education role within pre and postregistration curricula. The paper concludes with a discussion and implications of the findings.

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Journal of Advanced Nursing

Tập 32 Số 5

1282-1290

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