Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Nurse Practitioners Knowledge towards use of High Risk/High Alert Medications

Abstract

Background: Nurse practitioners play an important role in the chain of drug administration process. Adequate updated knowledge is prerequisite to deliver high quality health care services. Objectives: The study was aimed to develop and validate learning materials as an instrument to assess the knowledge of practising nurses towards High Risk Medications (HRM). Design: Prospective methodological program. Methods: The instrument on HRM was developed in the form of videos compatible in both PC and mobile format. The five chapters were emphasised and modules was ensured to be important, relevance, reactions, appropriate with the help of content and face validations. Further, confirmed to be sensitive enough to distinguish the knowledge levels of nurses. Then, followed by Kuder-Richardson formula 20 (K-R 20) using split-half reliability test to obtain the reliability index score (rKR20=(k/k-1)/(1-#x2211;pq/#x3C3;2)) confirming the internal consistency of instruments.