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Knowledge Pediatric Nurses Have On The Medications They Are Giving, Opaljean Whiteaker
Knowledge Pediatric Nurses Have On The Medications They Are Giving, Opaljean Whiteaker
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The purpose of this survey was twofold (1) to find out what knowledge the pediatric nurse has regarding selected medications which she is administering, and (2) to make recommendations relative to drug knowledge for in-service education programs in hospitals.
The data regarding abdication knowledge as collected by using a checklist form developed for this study and administered to seventeen graduate nurses in three selected hospitals each supervising a pediatric unit.
A checklist included categories, the route, the action time of a drug, and the side effects that could he commonly expected.
From the fifteen categories listed, the hematological and anticonvulsant …