Nursing students' perspectives of the cause of medication errors
Nurse Education TodayPublished 11 May 2013
Mojtaba Vaismoradi, Sue Jordan, Hannele Turunen, Terese Bondas
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If nursing students are to become competent, skilful and safe practitioners, their learning will require extensive support from their academic institutions and clinical mentors, and nursing curricula need to increase investment in medicines management.
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Nursing curricula need to increase investment in medicines management. If nursing students are to become competent, skilful and safe practitioners, their learning will require extensive support from their academic institutions and clinical mentors.
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