An Advanced Medication Administration Experience to Promote Students' Knowledge Acquisition in the Skill of Administering Medications

Medication administration opportunities for student nurses have been decreased due to limited clinical opportunities. Full-time faculty who teach in the undergraduate program designed an advanced medication administration educational laboratory and simulation activities. Students had the opportunity to use standardized patients to administer medications. A metric of aggregate scores on the medical-surgical Health Educational System, Inc.© medication administration section were compared. The results indicated significant improvement in scores in students who completed the advanced medication administration laboratory.