Nursing Home Error and Level of Staff Credentials

Providing safe nursing home care is both a clinical and fiscal challenge in many countries. The fiscal realities result in the addition of other workers, such as medication technicians or aides (CMT/A), to the health care team. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of various levels...

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Published in:Clinical nursing research 2007-02, Vol.16 (1), p.72-78
Main Authors: Scott-Cawiezell, Jill, Pepper, Ginette A., Madsen, Richard W., Petroski, Greg, Vogelsmeier, Amy, Zellmer, Dave
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Clinical nursing
Credentialing
Credentials
Critical incidents
Drugs
Errors
Health care
Health care industry
Health Personnel
Home health care
Human error
Humans
Interruptions
Medical errors
Medical technicians
Medication Errors
Midwestern United States
Nursing
Nursing homes
Nursing Homes - manpower
Order entry
Practice nurses
Staff
Teams
Technicians
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Credentialing
Credentials
Critical incidents
Drugs
Errors
Health care
Health care industry
Health Personnel
Home health care
Human error
Humans
Interruptions
Medical errors
Medical technicians
Medication Errors
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Nursing
Nursing homes
Nursing Homes - manpower
Order entry
Practice nurses
Staff
Teams
Technicians
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