Nurses' medication work: What do nurses know?

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 3218-3226

  Folkmann, Louise ^a   Rankin, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug error; Feminist research; Institutional ethnography; Medication error; Medication work; Safety discourse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SAFETY;

CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78650425777     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03249.x     Document Type: Article

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