Fewer interruptions help nurses reduce drug errors
Efforts to reduce interruptions for nurses handing out medications to patients resulted in an 88% drop in administration errors at nine San Francisco Bay area hospitals. The University of California, San Francisco, program included having teams of nurses at the hospitals develop ways to alert others when they were giving out medications, such as wearing bright vests or sashes.
San Francisco Chronicle | 10/28
This story published in ANA SmartBrief on 10/28/2009
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