The development of rational drug use competencies on ethics principle for nursing students via online program
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Background: The misadministration of medicines is an ethical problem in nursing that is significant to the development of competencies related to ethical principles in nursing students, so that they are able to use medicines rationally according to ethical principles, and also as nursing graduates have the competencies prescribed by the Nursing Council for the rational drug use.
Objectives: To compare rational drug use (RDU) competencies in relation to the ethical principle before and after studying an online RDU program in relation to the ethical principle developed for nursing students and to examine nursing students' satisfaction with studying the online program.
Methods: A quasi-experimental research with a pretest/posttest design in a group setting. The sample consisted of 40 nursing students selected by simple random sampling. In this study, the RDU on ethics principle program on Google Classroom was used. Analysis of data before and after studying the online program using dependent t-test statistics and assessment of satisfaction with the RDU online ethical principles program using descriptive statistics.
Results: The results show that after studying the online program, the sample group had statistically significant higher competence in ethical rational drug use than before at a level of 0.1, and they were highly satisfied with studying the RDU online ethical principle program.
Conclusion: The developed online program could develop the competencies of rational drug use based on ethical principles for nursing students.
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