Doses of chemotherapy treatment

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Potential Threat to Patient Safety: Earlier in the shift, one of the patients was diagnosed with cancer, so the nurse was now responsible for administering two doses of chemotherapy treatment; the nurse put one of the doses in a drawer for safekeeping and administered the other to the patient. After they finished the first dosage, they continued with patient care in other rooms and forgot to administer the second dose prior to leaving once relief staffing arrived.

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