Cap Project

Medication Education

RMC 4 NW

----------- University, NUR 4642: Role Transition

• Lack of education on medication is one of the biggest issue in RMC Unit
• Most patients were discharged with out the proper understanding of their medication
• Major reasons are shortage of staff , work overload, and the believe that it`s the pharmacist's responsibility.
• Medication education can treat patients’ causative health problem and help the patient to stay safe while taking their medication.
• My nurse manger in RMC is open to new Ideas about mediation teaching

• First article: Browen, Rotz, Patterson, and Sen (2017) administered a cross sectional survey tested two objectives:
• examine nurses’ attitudes and behaviors regarding the provision of patient medication education. As a result 90% of nurse believed on medication education but rarely did it.
• determine if nurses’ medication education attitudes explained their behaviors, described nurses’ confidence in patient medication knowledge and abilities, and identified challenges to improvements for medication education. As a result, nurse had lower confident about patient medication understanding due to language and communication barrier.
• Second article: Talbot (2018) reviewed the lack of medication education on patients in her medical surgical unit. As a result , 75 % of patients stated that they are taking the medication because the doctor told them to.

• First article/intervention
• Prochnow, Meiers, and Scheckel (2019) came up with teach back method for patients and care givers.
• Result was patients and caregivers recalled the purpose and side effects of new medications
• Increase HCAHPS scores from 6% to 10%
• Second article/ intervention:
• Jones, and Coke (2016) implemented study testing medication sheet paper for medication teaching in two medical surgical unit.
• Result was 42% of the patients discharged from those two units understanding to the medication increased by 4% and 11.4%.

Browen, J.F., RotZ, M.E., Patterson, B.J., & Sen, S. (2017). Nurses` attitudes and behaviors on patient medication education. Pharmacy practice, 15(2), 1-5.

Jones,T. R, & Coke, L. (2016) Impact of Standardized New Medication Education Program on Postdischarge Patients’ Knowledge and Satisfaction. journal of nursing administration, 46)0), 535-540.

Prochnow, J. A., Meiers, S. J., & Scheckel, M. M. (2019). Improving patient and caregiver new medication education using an innovative teach-back toolkit. journal of Nursing Care Quality, (34), 101–106.

Talbot, B. (2018). Improving patient medication education. Nursing, 48(5), 58-60.

• The intervention for RMC medical surgical unit will be medication teaching sheets.
• According to Talbot (2018) Data was collected after the use of medication sheets and showed patient understanding of the medication went up from 62.5% to 100%
• medication teaching sheets are colorful paper that include purpose, and side effects of the medication.
• placed in nursing station and given to patient before discharge and during medication administration through nurses
• Evaluation:
• Ask patients to teach back about the medication they are receiving.
• Nurse has to call back the patients after discharge and ask them about the new medication they are receiving

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