title: Medication issues for nursing older people (part 1).
abstract: This article aims to raise awareness about professional responsibility and accountability in medication issues that impact on older people. Nurses must recognise their responsibilities in regard to the safe administration of medicines and challenge poor drug administration practices.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dundee.
authors.forename: Lindsay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dingwall
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans