Implications for practice and research

• The use of an educational board game can be used as a pragmatic teaching-learning intervention to assist students with medication knowledge acquisition and retention.

• Further research should continue to explore the use of gameplay or other gamified activities, as potential strategies to support student learning of complex phenomena.

Context

Proper medication prescribing, management and administration is essential to ensure patient safety by reducing medication errors. A lack of medication knowledge with respect to recognition, indications for use, side effects and proper administration has been shown to cause medication errors.1 Given nurses’ integral role in medication administration, it is necessary to prepare students with the knowledge, skill and judgement for this undertaking. …