title: Reducing medication errors: Teaching strategies that increase nursing students' awareness of medication errors and their prevention.
abstract: Medication errors are a patient safety and quality of care issue. There is evidence to suggest many undergraduate nursing curricula do not adequately educate students about the factors that contribute to medication errors and possible strategies to prevent them. We designed and developed a suite of teaching strategies that raise students' awareness of medication error producing situations and their prevention.
authors.affiliation: Griffith University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, L05 3.45 Logan campus, Meadowbrook, Queensland 4131, Australia. Electronic address: s.latimer@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Latimer
authors.affiliation: Griffith University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, G16 Gold Coast campus, Southport, Queensland 4222, Australia. Electronic address: j.hewitt@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Jayne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hewitt
authors.affiliation: Queensland Health, Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook, Queensland 413, Australia. Electronic address: rebecca.stanbrough@griffithuni.edu.au.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stanbrough
authors.affiliation: Griffith University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, G16 Gold Coast campus, Southport, Queensland 4222, Australia. Electronic address: r.mcandrew@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McAndrew
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D061214:Patient Safety; D013338:Students, Nursing