Workplace Supports, Relationships, and Safe Medication Practice Study

This research paper presents a pilot study exploring the influence of workplace supports and relationships on safe medication practices among Australian graduate nurses. The study employed an exploratory research design with a convenience sample of 58 nursing graduates. Data was collected using a web-based questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS. The findings revealed that graduates in medical/surgical units experienced higher rates of medication errors. The study also found that confidence, communication, and the ability to seek advice influenced safe medication practices. Limitations included the use of a convenience sample and potential biases in the recruitment strategy. The study recommends larger sample sizes for future research. The report covers aim and significance, methods (research design, sampling, data collection), data analysis and results, and limitations and recommendations, along with relevant references. The research highlights the importance of supportive workplace environments for promoting patient safety and reducing medication errors among new nurses.

RESEARCH PAPER

TABLE OF CONTENTS
AIM AND SIGNIFICANCE...........................................................................................................1
Aim..............................................................................................................................................1
Significance.................................................................................................................................1
METHODS......................................................................................................................................1
Research design...........................................................................................................................1
Sampling.....................................................................................................................................1
Data collection method...............................................................................................................2
DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS..............................................................................................2
Method for data analysis.............................................................................................................2
Findings and results....................................................................................................................3
Limitations and recommendations..............................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

AIM AND SIGNIFICANCE
Aim
To explore the influence of workplace supports and relationships on safe medication practice:
A pilot study of Australian graduate nurses
Significance
In the present scenario, benefits of positive workplace climate has attained growth and
unsupportive and disruptive workplace behaviours are widespread in various health care
organizations. This study will help in investigating the association among workplace supports
along with relationships and safe medication practice in graduate nurses. This study will help
other researcher for gaining findings of past study and health care organizations for attaining
success in terms of workplace climate and employee satisfaction as well.
METHODS
Research design
The research design is explained as framework of techniques and methods chosen
through researcher for mixing numerous components of research in logical manner so that
research problem is handled efficiently. In this study, there is application of exploratory research
design about research problem as there are very few earlier studies about this topic. It lays
emphasis on insights and familiarity for later investigation or underlined when issues are at
preliminary stage of investigation. This design was appropriate as per research aim because it
helps in extracting background information, flexible and helps in addressing every type of
research question (Ledford and Gast, 2018). It had also offered opportunity to define innovative
terms and clarifying the existing concepts. It has produced formal hypothesis along with
developing more precise research issue and helps for purpose of establishing the priorities.
Sampling
It is statistical procedure which is directly concerned with choosing the individual
observation and for making statistical inferences in population. Generally, it is categorised in two
types such as probability and non probability sampling. It has been articulated that, there is
application of non probability sampling as it sub category is convenience sampling. Here
subjects are chosen due to convenient proximity and accessibility to the researcher. All nursing
graduates of two Australian States were replicated as population for this study and as a sample of
58 nursing graduates were chosen with reference to convenience sampling. The main reason
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behind this type of sampling is ease for use and it had allowed to gain basic trends and data
related to study with absence of complications of using the randomized sample (Lê and et.al.
2019). Apart from this, it has provided benefit for extracting relationship in various phenomena.
Data collection method
It is known as the process of measuring and collecting information on different variables
of interest, in an established systematic fashion enables for answering the stated research
questions and for evaluating outcomes. Generally, data could be collected with two types of
method such as qualitative and quantitative data collection. It has been extracted that, there is
application of quantitative data collection method which relies on sampling and structured
instruments which fit diverse experience within pre identified categories. They generate
outcomes which are easy for comparing, summarising and generalizing. Simultaneously, within
this instrument there is use of questionnaires from the above selected sample. This questionnaire
was web based as link of survey was sent to universities website, email reminders were sent for
purpose of improving survey response rate (Boyd, 2018). This method is highly appropriate as
per research design because of creating convenience and ease for data analysis as well.
DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
Method for data analysis
Data analysis is considered as process of systematically implying logical or statistical
techniques for providing description, analysing, evaluating and recap the data. On basis of this
study, survey data was downloaded through Qualtrics as online platform which was directly
hosted on website of university. Moreover, it was analysed with application of Statistic Package
for Social sciences (SPSS) version 20 (Sivam and et.al. 2018). This tool helps to analyse highly
complex data and manipulation with numerous simple instructions. Within this tool, descriptive
statistics were used on entire data set to determine numerous logical responses and identifying
the extent of missing data. The descriptive statistics helps in enabling to reflect the data in
meaningful aspect, which directly allows simpler and data interpretation. After this, frequency
distributions which consists of standard deviation, mean and Spearman's correlation analysis was
undertaken. The standard deviation reflects about risk in order to average, Spearman's correlation
analysis helps in determining relationship and mean shows average responses of entire sample
with reference to research objectives.
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Findings and results
It has been extracted about mean duration of employment was about 13.2 months as there
were highly employed full-time in medical/s surgical , community or acute care settings. On
basis of cross tabulations, graduates in medical or surgical units were at highest rate of
medication errors and then acute and speciality areas (Sahay, Hutchinson and East, 2015).
Further, 24.4% sample did not report any medication error witnessed as outcome of being bullied
through other nurses as 8.6% traced reason for non reporting was that absence of harm occurred
to patient. On basis of medication practices along with disruptive behaviour, quarter if sample
felt pressured through prescribing doctors to administrators a medication apart from their
concerns. The application of correlation analysis, it has been indicated about numerous factors
had given significant influence on graduate nurse medication practices.
With context to findings, confidence and communication enables safe medication
practices along with promoting safety of patient. The graduates which reported reluctant
approach to specific colleagues for advice of medication administration and reported
administrating medications had belief that incorrect for condition of patient instead of
approaching the prescriber.
Limitations and recommendations
The first limitation is access to recent graduates as participating universities had
contacted students via last known email account stored in their data base. With the considerable
time, there is elapsed from gradation who retained email invitation for participating in study. It
has high possibilities that they did not access their email accounts. Thus, recruitment strategy
might influence profile of respondents. Apart from this, convenience sample is also a limitation,
lack of information, use of self report on non responders. This might introduce bias as sample
might be not appropriate representative of population under study and inaccurate as well.
Moreover, sample size is also small as it is right for explorative study. It has been recommended
that it must use the more sample for purpose of attaining accurate research objective.
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