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Nurse Leader Weekly, February 7, 2008
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Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, TX, took a creative approach to cut down on medication errors when it created a "no-talk zone."
"Distractions were definitely becoming an issue with medication errors," says Gail Martin, MBA, RN, quality analyst at Citizens Medical Center. The main problem was that two of the facility's busiest and most critical floors had Pyxis medication dispensing machines located out in the open-next to the coffee pot and across from the nurses' station, says Martin.
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