Developing risk management behaviours for nurses through medication incident analysis

International Journal of Nursing Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 548-555

  Johnson, Maree ^a   Tran, Duong Thuy ^a   Young, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medication administration; Patient safety; Risk management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NURSE; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEW SOUTH WALES; NURSES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 82055176172     PISSN: 13227114     EISSN: 1440172X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-172X.2011.01977.x     Document Type: Article

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