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      <journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Archives of Pharmacy Practice</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2320-5210</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com-1183</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51847/dhF5Ij3BtD</article-id>
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          <subject>Original research</subject>
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        <article-title>Evaluation of Resuscitation Medications&amp;rsquo; Knowledge among Pakistani Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Analysis</article-title>
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                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Alvi</surname>
                <given-names>Safia</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Salman</surname>
                <given-names>Muhammad</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
                                                            <xref rid="cor1" ref-type="corresp" />
                          </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Khan</surname>
                <given-names>Amer Hayat</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
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                  <aff id="aff1">
            <label>1</label>Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff2">
            <label>2</label>Institute of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical and Allied Health Sciences, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan.
          </aff>
                          <author-notes>
            <corresp id="cor1">
              <bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Prof. Wael Abu Dayyih, Department of
              Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan.
                              E-mail: <email xlink:href="msk5012@gmail.com">msk5012@gmail.com</email>
                          </corresp>
          </author-notes>
                    <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>26</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>15</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>26</fpage>
      <lpage>33</lpage>
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        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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      <abstract>
        <title>A<sc>BSTRACT</sc></title>
        <p>Medication errors are associated with significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Of various types of medication errors, administration errors are the most common. This study evaluated nurses’ knowledge of resuscitation medication administration and the obstacles they encountered while administering these medications. This multicenter, cross-sectional study was conducted among registered nurses working within public and private sector hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan. Participants were recruited using a convenient sampling technique and data were gathered using a self-completed, pre-validated questionnaire. This study included 409 nurses (age 30.09 ± 4.45 years), of whom, around 55% were found to have adequate knowledge (score &gt; 70%) of resuscitation medications. Increasing age, experience, and hospital, and cardiovascular life support training were associated with higher knowledge scores. Furthermore, nurses from oncology, intensive care units, and emergency rooms had better knowledge (P &lt; 0.05) than those working in other departments. Interruptions during the drug administration method (75.6%), a lack of understanding between health professionals (69.4%), and a reluctance to ask inquiries (67.7 %) were the three most common barriers encountered during the administration process. Only 55 percent of nurses had adequate knowledge, necessitating educational measures to improve nurses’ knowledge of resuscitation medications. </p>
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                <kwd>Resuscitation medications</kwd>
                <kwd>High alert medications</kwd>
                <kwd>Knowledge</kwd>
                <kwd>Nurses</kwd>
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