Clinical risk management and patient safety education for nurses: a critique.

Megan-Jane Johnstone; Olga Kanitsaki

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Clinical risk management and patient safety education for nurses: a critique.

July 26, 2006

Johnstone M-J, Kanitsaki O. Nurse Educ Today. 2007;27(3):185-91.

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The authors argue for a new, evidence-based approach to training nurses in clinical risk management.

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