Effectiveness of an active teaching method for learning to write nursing prescriptions in the context of primary health care: a pilot study.
Nursing; Drug Prescriptions; Salud Laboral; Primary Health Care; Simulation.
Introduction: The problem involved in incidents in the drug chain and their impacts were included in the emblematic report published by the Institute of Medicine, which indicated the occurrence of around 7,000 deaths per year in the United States. In the context of undergraduate nursing courses, particularly in the teaching of drug prescription in Primary Health Care, various active methodologies and teaching methods can be used, including clinical simulation for skills training as a teaching method, recommended by the World Health Organization itself and in the Global Plan for Patient Safety 2021-2030. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an active teaching method for learning to write nursing prescriptions in the context of primary health care. Method: This is a single-group quasi-experimental study. The study will be carried out in the Nursing Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, specifically in the Workers' Health curriculum, with undergraduate nursing students. The intervention that will be carried out consists of applying the teaching-learning methodology "Teaching Good Practices in Writing Medication Prescriptions", following eight stages, as a clinical simulation for skills training, in which students will produce medication prescriptions according to institutional protocols (municipal and ministerial). The quality of these prescriptions will be assessed using an instrument called QualiPresc, which will measure the quality of these documents before and after the intervention immediately, 30 and 60 days after the intervention. As for measuring motivation, the Situational Motivation Scale will be used, which consists of a Likert-type scale. Descriptive statistics will be used to process the data, using measures of central tendency and dispersion. Inferential statistics will be used to assess the effect, taking into account the normal distribution of the data, from which it will be possible to use parametric and non-parametric tests. Expected Results: Nursing students are expected to improve the accuracy of drug prescriptions, reducing dosage errors and harmful interactions, as well as increasing their understanding of the relationship between occupational health and drug prescribing, resulting in more appropriate prescriptions.