Paediatric nurses' adherence to the double-checking process during medication administration in a children's hospital: an observational study.

Zayed Alsulami; Imti Choonara; Sharon Conroy

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Paediatric nurses' adherence to the double-checking process during medication administration in a children's hospital: an observational study.

June 18, 2014

Alsulami Z, Choonara I, Conroy S. J Adv Nurs. 2014;70(6):1404-13.

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On many hospital wards, standard policy calls for two nurses to double-check medications prior to administration, despite a lack of consistent evidence supporting this strategy. In this prospective observational study, pediatric nurses independently double-checked only 30% of drug administrations and adherence varied between weekdays and weekends.

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