Patient safety: numerical skills and drug calculation abilities of nursing students and Registered Nurses.

Miriam McMullan; Ray Jones; Susan Lea

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Patient safety: numerical skills and drug calculation abilities of nursing students and Registered Nurses.

March 31, 2010

McMullan M, Jones R, Lea S. J Adv Nurs. 2010;66(4).

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A large proportion of nurses and nursing students committed calculation errors when preparing drug dosages.

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