The Effectiveness of Using Mobile Application Improving the Perception of Dopamine Drug Administration Skill among Nursing Students
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Background: Dopamine is a drug that is classified as a high-alert drug and is often inaccurate administration. Therefore, the application of medication in helping with the calculation and administration of drugs is needed. Especially in nursing students and nurses at the ward will increase their skills of drug administration and reduce the risk that may occur to patients.
Objective: To study the effectiveness of using mobile application to improve the perception of dopamine drug administration skill among nursing students, Phrapokklao Nursing College
Materials and methods: This was a one group posttest-only design. The participants were 29 senior nursing students who were trained at the medical and cardiac intensive care unit, Phrapokklao Hospital from 3 December 2018 to 4 January 2019. The research tools composed of mobile application of dopamine drug administration, dopamine drug administration skill questionnaire and satisfaction of mobile application of dopamine drug administration questionnaire, the reliability was good with Cronbach's Alpha of 0.92 and 0.91 respectively. Percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to analyze data with SPSS 24. The effect size was calculated using Cohen’s equation. Power analysis was calculated by G*power 3.1.9.2
Result: After using the mobile application of dopamine drug administration, there was a statistical significance increase in the dopamine drug administration skills among nursing students (p = 0.01, 95 % CI = 0.0680–0.3405) with medium effect size (ES = 0.57) at a power of 0.91. Participants reported that they had the highest level of satisfaction with overall and all items (mean = 4.7-4.8, standard deviation = 0.4-0.5) and also perceived the highest level of improvement in dopamine drug administrative skill for both overall and all items (mean = 4.7-4.8, standard deviation =0.4-0.5).
Conclusion: Mobile application can improve the perception of dopamine drug administration skills among nursing students. Therefore, this is an alternative way to improve the quality of dopamine drug administration skills for caring for the patients receiving dopamine in the clinical setting.
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