Barriers to the reporting of medication administration errors among nursing students

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-74

  Koohestani, Hamid Reza ^a   Baghcheghi, Nayereh ^a  

^a ARAK UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Barriers; Medication errors; Nursing student; Reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349920817     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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