Conducting root cause analysis with nursing students: Best practice in nursing education

Journal of Nursing Education

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 444-448

  Lambton, Judith ^a   Mahlmeister, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b Mahlmeister and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ERROR; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; ROLE PLAYING; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BENCHMARKING; CAUSALITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; FACULTY, NURSING; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; ROLE PLAYING; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 77956053270     PISSN: 01484834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20100430-03     Document Type: Article

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