Medication management skills : descriptive literature review

Abstract

Medication management is a crucial skill for healthcare providers, which requires a lot of clinical knowledge and practice in order to achieve medication safety as an integral aspect of patient safety. Nursing professional play a significant role in patient’s medication process with the aim to bring evidence-based approaches to provide patient with better, safer and more comfortable care.

The thesis aim is to discover and clarifying the definition of medication management.

The purpose of this thesis is to promote awareness of nursing student about medication management, which is especially beneficial for junior and senior nursing students.

This thesis use descriptive literature review, focus on using available resources on PubMed, EBSCO and LAB Primo with inclusion and exclusion based on year, language, type of text, keywords and topics relation to nursing. After that the data collected were analysis by inductive qualitative method.

This thesis is a small insight about medication management, a clarification that especially beneficial for nursing student to understand more about medication management.