Prescription for success: don't bother nurses.

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Prescription for success: don't bother nurses.

November 11, 2009

Colliver V. San Francisco Chronicle. October 28, 2009:A1.

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This news story shares the results of a nine-hospital program to improve the safety of medication delivery through minimizing nursing interruptions.

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