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Larissa Africa1, Jean S Shinners2
1Versant Healthcare Solutions, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Abstract:
This article provides a narrative that describes the current state of medical errors and near misses in the general health care setting and for new graduate registered nurses specifically. It then proposes a "wild idea" to create a national database for the reporting of errors that would act as a call to action to change our current reporting system to one of transparency and shared information for the purpose of creating needed education in both academic and practice settings.
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