Decision-making processes used by nurses during intravenous drug preparation and administration.

Lisa Dougherty; Magi Sque; Rob Crouch

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Decision-making processes used by nurses during intravenous drug preparation and administration.

May 4, 2012

Dougherty L, Sque M, Crouch R. J Adv Nurs. 2012;68(6):1302-11.

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This ethnographic study analyzes the methods nurses use to avoid medication administration errors and work environment factors that facilitate errors.

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