Nursing student medication errors: a snapshot view from a school of nursing's quality and safety officer.

Elizabeth Cooper

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Nursing student medication errors: a snapshot view from a school of nursing's quality and safety officer.

February 26, 2014

Cooper E. J Nurs Educ. 2014;53(3):S51-4.

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Nurses are often responsible for medication administration at the bedside. This commentary illustrates how a medication error reporting project in nursing school improved student comfort with event reporting, incident categorization, and data analysis.

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