Medication Administration : Medication Errors

For those of you that have not seen the March supplement of American Journal of Nursing. The issue covers medication - from safe administration through medicine errors.

Articles include:

• Medication Reconciliation: Transfer of medication information across settings-keeping it free from error.
• Technology and Safe Medication Administration
• Medication Errors: Why they happen, and how they can be prevented.
• Errors from the Consumer's Perspective: Tragedy motivated one woman to take action.

A complete list of the articles in the journal
[Volume 105(3) March 2005 supplement]
are found in the issue list of American Journal of Nursing via the electronic journals list.