More than 40% of nurse errors not from medication.
Minimizing distractions is seen as an important strategy for reducing nursing errors. Errors and near errors for 393-nurse sample extrapolates to nearly 5,000 incidents per year. Still relatively few hospitals use computerized physician order entry, keeping transcription errors high.
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