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How to avoid medication errors

Nick Evans Health journalist

Medication errors in cancer care are higher due to complex and risky drugs and therapies, so nurses need to know how to reduce errors

The risk of medication errors in cancer care is considered to be higher because patients tend to require complex and risky drugs from opiates and antibiotics to therapies, such as chemotherapy.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 21, 3, 14-16. doi: 10.7748/cnp.21.3.14.s9

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03 May 2022 / Vol 21 issue 3

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