Medication errors harm an estimated 1.3 million people annually and cause a death per day in the United States, according to the World Health Organization. In busy hospitals, the cause may be as routine as an interruption—a doctor asking the administering nurse for information or a colleague wanting to chat during the process of assembling the right medications and dosages for a patient. Studies have indicated that interruption rates may be as high as 94.5% during medication administration. But interruptions seldom are part of student nursing education.  Now Temple is partic...