Simmons Debora, Graves Krisanne
Texas A&M Health Science Center, Rural Community Health Institute, College Station, TX, USA.
Urol Nurs. 2008 Dec;28(6):460-4.
In a neonatal unit, an experienced nurse inadvertently connected a feeding tube to an intravenous catheter. An analysis of this error, including the historical perspective, reveals that this threat to safety has been documented since 1972. Implications for nursing practice include the redesign of systems to accommodate human factors science and a change in health care's view of vigilance.