Nursing student medication errors: a case study using root cause analysis.

Mary A. Dolansky; Kalina Druschel; Maura Helba; Kathleen Courtney

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Nursing student medication errors: a case study using root cause analysis.

May 1, 2013

Dolansky MA, Druschel K, Helba M, et al. J Prof Nurs. 2013;29(2):102-8.

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This commentary examines a medication error involving insulin using root case analysis to identify factors that contributed to the error.

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