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School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
incidence and improve the safety of patients and nurses. Future
research and further study in this area is necessary in order to
monitor and measure the improvement of numeracy skills amongst
student nurses.
Key References
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DoH (2000) An Organisation with a Memory; Report of an expert
group on learning from adverse events in the NHS DoH: London
DoH (2004) Building a safer NHS for Patients; improving medication
safety DOH: London
Hutton, M( 2003) Calculations for new prescribers Nurs Stand 13
(11): 35-8
National Patient Safety Agency Report (NPSA, 2001, 2004)
Nursing and Midwifery Council (2004) Guidelines for the
administration of medicines NMC: London
O’Shea, E (1999) Factors contributing to medication errors; a
literature review J Adv Nurs 8: 496-504
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