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Table 3 High risk of error estimated from medication knowledge and certainty evaluation - totally, for each discipline and topic

From: Differences in medication knowledge and risk of errors between graduating nursing students and working registered nurses: comparative study

 

Proportion of questions with high risk of error

 

Students

Nurses

P-value

 

(n = 243)

(n = 203)

 

Total (42) 2)

15.6%

14.9%

0.46

Pharmacology (14)

11.2%

11.1%

0.98

- General (3)

5.9%

5.4%

0.68

- Effect (3)

3.7%

2.8%

0.38

- Side effects/interactions (4)

7.9%

8.9%

0.66

- Administration form/generics (4)

24.0%

23.8%

0.99

Drug management

26.6%

26.4%

0.87

- Responsibility (2)

36.4%

24.9%

0.001

- Storage (4)

29.8%

27.3%

0.39

- Dispensing (4)

15.0%

24.3%

<0.001

- Distribution (4)

30.0%

28.4%

0.43

Drug dose calculations (14)

9.1%

7.2%

0.005

- Units (7)

10.8%

10.2%

0.30

- Dose-amount-strength (4)

8.4%

3.4%

<0.001

- Dilution/infusion (3)

5.5%

4.8%

0.38

  1. Mann-Whitney U-test.
  2. The results are given as percent of the total number of answers where the participants were certain that an incorrect answer was correct.
  3. 2)( ) = number of questions.