Paediatric nurses' adherence to the double-checking process during medication administration in a children's hospital: an observational study.
Alsulami Z, Choonara I, Conroy S. Paediatric nurses' adherence to the double-checking process during medication administration in a children's hospital: an observational study. J Adv Nurs. 2014;70(6):1404-13. doi:10.1111/jan.12303.
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.