Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, The Nurses's Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. It provides nurses with practical strategies and real-life examples to improve medication safety in their health care organizations.

This title also offers expert advice from nurses and researchers on how to:

• Develop effective medication reconciliation processes that make use of a nurse's unique abilities in the area of preventing medication errors
• Address repetitive error patterns
• Work with other nurses, pharmacists and physicians as partners in medication safety
• Encourage nurses to report medication errors
• Use human factors engineering solutions to help nurses improve medication safety
• Use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized prescriber order entry) to help nurses improve medication safety
• Address the ethical and moral effects of a nurse's role in medication safety

Laura Cima, R.N., M.B.A., C.N.A.A., B.C., F.A.C.H.E.
Vice president, Nursing, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey

Sean Clarke, R.N., Ph.D., C.R.N.P.
Associate director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research; Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia