Developing a reporting and tracking tool for nursing student errors and near misses.

Joanne Disch; Jane Barnsteiner

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Developing a reporting and tracking tool for nursing student errors and near misses.

May 28, 2014

Disch J, Barnsteiner J. J Nurs Reg. 2015;5(1):4-10.

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Discussions about near misses offer opportunities to detect risks and improve safety in health care. This commentary describes the development and implementation of a tool to collect and provide information about reporting of nursing students' errors and near misses in order to determine trends and design prevention strategies.

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