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Developing a competence framework for nurses in pharmaceutical care: A Delphi study
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Zuzana Kafková,
Igor Karnjus,
Petros Kolovos,
Gero Langer,
Manuel Lillo-Crespo,
Alba Malara,
Hana Padyšáková,
Mirko Prosen,
Dorina Pusztai,
Francesco Talarico,
Styliani Tziaferi,
Carolien G.M. Sino
Nurse Education Today, Volume: 104, Start page: 104926
Swansea University Author:
Sue Jordan
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104926
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Background: Nurses play an important role in pharmaceutical care. They are involved in: detecting clinical change; communicating/discussing pharmacotherapy with patients, their advocates, and other healthcare pro-fessionals; proposing and implementing medication-related interventions; and ensuring f...
| Published in: | Nurse Education Today |
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| ISSN: | 0260-6917 |
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Elsevier BV
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57599 |
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Background: Nurses play an important role in pharmaceutical care. They are involved in: detecting clinical change; communicating/discussing pharmacotherapy with patients, their advocates, and other healthcare pro-fessionals; proposing and implementing medication-related interventions; and ensuring follow-up of patients and medication regimens. To date, a framework of nurses' competences on knowledge, skills, and attitudes as to interprofessional pharmaceutical care tasks is missing. Objectives: To reach agreement with experts about nurses' competences for tasks in interprofessional pharma-ceutical care. Methods: A two-phase study starting with a scoping review followed by five Delphi rounds was performed. Competences extracted from the literature were assessed by an expert panel on relevance by using the RAND/ UCLA method. The experts (n =22) involved were healthcare professionals, nurse researchers, and educators from 14 European countries with a specific interest in nurses' roles in interprofessional pharmaceutical care. Descriptive statistics supported the data analysis. Results: The expert panel reached consensus on the relevance of 60 competences for 22 nursing tasks. Forty-one competences were related to 15 generic nursing tasks and 33 competences were related to seven specific nursing tasks. |
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Nursing; Pharmaceutical care; Medicines management; Interprofessional pharmaceutical care; Competences; Education; Knowledge; Skills; Attitudes; Delphi study |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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The research was supported by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union (grant number 2018-1-BE02-KA203-046861) and MDMJ Accountants, an accountancy service in Belgium that financially supported the Belgian authors, without any conflicts of interest. |
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