Canada: Study finds overworked nurses make more medical mistakes
Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, May 27, 2008
A Statistics Canada survey of nearly 19,000 nurses in 2005 shows 22% of nurses who work overtime admitted their patients may have been the victims of medication errors, reports the Toronto Sun. Fourteen percent of nurses who worked a regular shift admitted to such errors.
“The research is very clear. The more we reduce the number of bedside hours, there is an undeniable increase in morbidity and mortality—which is death,” Linda Haslam-Stroud, President of the Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) told the Sun.
The news comes as the ONA reports thousands of vacant nursing positions in Ontario.
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