Pediatric emergency nurses self-reported medication safety practices.

Jennifer L Mattei; Gordon Lee Gillespie

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Pediatric emergency nurses self-reported medication safety practices.

June 26, 2013

Mattei JL, Gillespie GL. J Pediatr Nurs. 2013;28(6):596-602.

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Pediatric nurses identified several barriers to implementing the National Patient Safety Goals for medication safety, many of which pertained to human factors engineering issues.

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