Moral distress, compassion fatigue, and perceptions about medication errors in certified critical care nurses.

Jeanne Maiden; Jane M Georges; Cynthia D Connelly

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Moral distress, compassion fatigue, and perceptions about medication errors in certified critical care nurses.

October 26, 2011

Maiden J, Georges JM, Connelly CD. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2011;30(6):339-45.

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This survey of intensive care unit nurses revealed many barriers to reporting medication errors, and nurses reporting higher levels of burnout had more strongly negative opinions of the utility of error reporting.

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