IV Push Medication Administration: Making Safe Choices; Choosing Best Practice

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 64-67

  Paparella, Susan F ^a   Mandrack, Michelle M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SAFE MEDICATION PRACTICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY NURSING; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICATION ERROR; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES;

EMERGENCY NURSING; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MEDICATION ERRORS;

EID: 84957843346     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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