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Prescription Drugs and Nursing Education: Knowledge Gaps and Implications for Role Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Madeline A. Naegle
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Nurses in all practice roles and settings need to understand the therapeutic use and potential for abuse of prescription drugs. Nursing roles, which include the administration and prescription of medication, health teaching and the implications of application, and the detection of drug-related problems, require that such education be timely and comprehensive. This paper discusses the state of knowledge dissemination about prescription drugs within the general context of nursing education. It highlights educational needs and explores the attitudinal factors and knowledge deficits that influence the nursing practices of prescribing, pain management, nursing assessment, and care of persons with drug problems.

Standard educational requirements in all nursing curricula undergird teaching about licit and illicit drugs and medication, as well as their therapeutic use, misuse, and abuse. It has been recognized widely since the early 1980s, however, that clinical experiences and didactic content on licit and illicit drugs presented in nursing programs is inadequate.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , Fall 1994 , pp. 257 - 261
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1994

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