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Cultivating a culture of medication safety in prelicensure nursing students.

Bush PA, Hueckel RM, Robinson D, Seelinger TA, Molloy MA. Nurse Educ. 2015 Feb 25; [Epub ahead of print].

Education about safety should begin early in nursing students' development. This commentary describes the design of a program incorporating safety science and safety culture into prelicensure nursing curriculum to enhance their awareness of medication safety from a systems perspective.

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