Addressing medication errors - the role of undergraduate nurse education.

Karen Page; Aidin A McKinney

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Addressing medication errors - the role of undergraduate nurse education.

August 2, 2006

Page K, McKinney AA. Nurse Educ Today. 2007;27(3):219-24.

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The authors discuss factors contributing to medication errors and how increased education in pharmacology for nurses could help reduce such incidents.

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