MMSL 2020, 89(4):200-206 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2020.018

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY: SIMULATED DOSING ERROR IDENTIFICATION BY PHARMACY STUDENTSOriginal article

Elham Alshammari ORCID...1*
Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Pharmacists are responsible for dispensing drugs and protecting the patient by making sure that they use drugs appropriately. They play an important role not only in the overall cost implications of healthcare but also in the concerns about patient safety when using medication. The scope of this paper was to evaluate the practice of navigation of medical resources among pharmacy students through a simulated event of acute kidney injury using a prospective research methodology. A sample of 65 students was used, among which 2 failed to identify the error in dosing (3.1%) while 56 (86.2%) responded with the presence of error in renal dosing and recommended correctly. Only 7 (10.8%) of the study population had an incomplete recommendation. Even though a greater percentage of the student populations were able to identify dosing errors, there were a few that were unable to identify the errors. Even though this percentage is small, it is much significant when placed in various healthcare institutions and is likely to have a significant impact on patient safety.

Keywords: dosing errors; medication error; mock-up training; pharmacy student

Received: July 17, 2020; Revised: August 19, 2020; Accepted: August 26, 2020; Prepublished online: September 14, 2020; Published: December 4, 2020  Show citation

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Alshammari, E. (2020). ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY: SIMULATED DOSING ERROR IDENTIFICATION BY PHARMACY STUDENTS. MMSL, 89(4), 200-206. doi: 10.31482/mmsl.2020.018
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