The nurse's medication day.

Bonnie Mowinski Jennings; Margarete Sandelowski; Barbara A. Mark

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The nurse's medication day.

August 29, 2012

Jennings BM, Sandelowski M, Mark BA. Qual Health Res. 2011;21(10):1441-51.

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This ethnographic study describes the complexity of medication administration and competing demands affecting nurses' workdays.

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