Errors Journal of Nursing

When Doing The Right Thing Leads to the Wrong Results

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Reprimanding nurses for medication errors contibutes to a culture of evasion and silence and does not address the reason behind the mistake.

Submitted by Tracy Nelson-Bungert, RN, MSN

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