An educational intervention to increase "speaking-up" behaviors in nurses and improve patient safety.

Michelle M. Sayre; Donna McNeese-Smith; Linda Searle Leach; Linda R. Phillips

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An educational intervention to increase "speaking-up" behaviors in nurses and improve patient safety.

January 11, 2012

Sayre MM, McNeese-Smith D, Leach LS, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27(2):154-60.

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