The authors of this study, considering that the main cause of iatrogeny in nursing lies in the lack of the nurses theoretical preparation, analysed the knowledge of 51 nurses in the preparation of medications. They tried to correlate this knowledge with the length of undergraduate program and with previous hospital experience. No correlation was found.
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