Written drug dosage errors made by students: The threat to clinical effectiveness and the need for a new approach

Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-29

  Weeks, Keith W ^a   Lyne, Patricia ^a   Torrance, Colin ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing fundamental cognitive nursing skills; Education for clinical effectiveness; Narrowing the theory practice divide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141892566     PISSN: 13619004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/cein.2000.0101     Document Type: Article

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