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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Long hours linked to nursing errors
Ooh, interesting. A study by the University of Philadelphia has shown that nurses make more errors when they work longer hours. More specifically, they show significantly more errors when they do longer than 12-hour shifts, work overtime, or work more than 40 hours per week.
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