Limitations of the Project
Additional demographic information about participants, such as years of practice, primary language, and level of nursing education, would have been useful in identifying the unique characteristics of nurses who participated in the study.
It is also recommended that differences across groups should be determined using a powered sample.
Effects of participant variability in educational preparation and years of experience and primary language would be particularly useful in determining whether it is necessary to tailor the educational
intervention to affect knowledge outcomes (Francke, Garssen, & Huijer Abu-Saad, 1995). RNs and LVNs
may achieve different knowledge benefits from the project; however, the small number of RNs at each nursing
home prevented full analysis from these two separate categories of nursing preparation.
In addition, because the focus of this study was on licensed nursing staff only, the benefits of this particular educational program to medication aides is unknown and should be examined in future projects.