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The risks of double checking

21 May 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

For many healthcare professionals, particularly nurses, double checking medications is part of the daily routine. However, a study of medication errors and how they...

Nurses’ knowledge about the double-checking process for medicines administration

04 November 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

This study aimed to evaluate nurses’ knowledge, perceptions and opinions of double-checking medication administration in a UK children’s hospital. Of 119...

Double-checking high-risk medications in acute settings: a safer process

28 January 2015

Nursing Management

Art & Science

There is a need to reduce medication errors, and one way of achieving this for high-risk medications is by double-checking. This article reports the results of a...