Passport in Facilitating Learning of Pharmacotherapy

The thesis aims to explore the perspectives of nursing degree programme students on the medication passport, its effect on learning, its rate of usage and possibilities for its improvement through a qualitative study. The medication passport is a learning tool which was developed by Turku University of Applied Sciences in an attempt to unify the education of pharmacology and safe pharmacotherapy in Finland. It was incorporated into the Laurea University of Applied Sciences nursing curriculum in 2010. This study was carried out in connection with the project “Facilitating Learning of Pharmacology and Medication in Nursing ” which was organized at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences at Otaniemi. The aim of the project was to improve the curriculum on pharmacology and medication. The study was completed by distributing a questionnaire made up of open-ended questions to twenty six degree programme nursing students at Laurea UAS Otaniemi from two different student groups. The results were analyzed and organized into common themes using a phenomenographic research method. The results of the study suggest that while students view the medication passport as