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Editorial
. 2017 May:52:7-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.02.004. Epub 2017 Feb 14.

Reducing medication errors: Teaching strategies that increase nursing students' awareness of medication errors and their prevention

Sharon Latimer  1 , Jayne Hewitt  2 , Rebecca Stanbrough  3 , Ron McAndrew  4
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Reducing medication errors: Teaching strategies that increase nursing students' awareness of medication errors and their prevention

Sharon Latimer et al. Nurse Educ Today. 2017 May.

Abstract

Medication errors are a patient safety and quality of care issue. There is evidence to suggest many undergraduate nursing curricula do not adequately educate students about the factors that contribute to medication errors and possible strategies to prevent them. We designed and developed a suite of teaching strategies that raise students' awareness of medication error producing situations and their prevention.

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