Advanced practice nursing students' identification of patient safety issues in ambulatory care.

Rebecca Schnall; Elaine L. Larson; Patricia W. Stone; Rita Marie John; Suzanne Bakken

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Advanced practice nursing students' identification of patient safety issues in ambulatory care.

April 10, 2013

Schnall R, Larson EL, Stone PW, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2013;28(2):169-75.

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Recent research has focused on identifying patient safety issues in the ambulatory setting. In this study, advanced practice nursing students recognized more than 800 patient safety issues during only 497 outpatient encounters.

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