The workshop increased knowledge, motivation and nursing attitude about five right drug administration

Abstract

Objective

To determine the effect of workshops on nurses’ knowledge, motivation, and attitudes toward the five right drug administration.

Method

A quasi-experiment, pre–post without control group design, was performed in a hospital with 140 inpatient nurses as the subject. As the intervention, a workshop with lecturing sessions, video presentation, and discussion was carried out. The measurement was three time (before, one and four week after intervention) using a questionare consisting of 10 (knowledge), 17 (motivation) and 20 (attitude) item. Analysis using the Friedman test.

Results

Results indicated a low mean of knowledge but a high mean of motivations and attitudes. Friedman's test revealed significant differences in knowledge (p = 0.000), motivation (p = 0.000), and attitudes (p = 0.000) about five rights of medication administration before, one, and four weeks after the workshop.

Conclusion

The workshop increases nurses’ knowledge, motivations, and attitudes toward five rights of medication administration.