Medication administration process assessment: applying lessons learned from commercial aviation.

Moreen Donahue; Joseph P. Brown; Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

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Medication administration process assessment: applying lessons learned from commercial aviation.

March 11, 2009

Donahue M, Brown JP, Fitzpatrick JJ. J Nurs Admin. 2009;39(2):77-83.

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This article describes how one hospital used an aviation safety assessment method to examine the medication administration process in one surgical and two medical units.

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