Educational strategies aimed at improving student nurse's medication calculation skills: A review of the research literature

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 491-503

  Stolic, Snezana ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Educational strategies; Integrative review; Medication calculation; Student nurse

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH;

EID: 84939421483     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2014.05.010     Document Type: Review

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