Nursing students' perspectives of the cause of medication errors

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 434-440

  Vaismoradi, Mojtaba ^a,c   Jordan, Sue ^a   Turunen, Hannele ^b   Bondas, Terese ^b,c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Medication errors; Nursing; Patient safety; Qualitative research; Students

Indexed keywords

HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRAN; LEARNING; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSING STUDENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; IRAN; LEARNING; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84894907372     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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