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Patrick Jahn

Patrick Jahn is Head of the Nursing Research Unit at University Hospital Halle (Saale) and a Board Member of the Konferenz Onkologischer Kranken- und Kinderkrankenpflege (KOK), Germany's oncology nursing society.

Illustration of a masked nurse amid a sea of pills, with a cracked shield and hospital buildings.

Europe Promised to Protect Its Nurses From Hazardous Drugs and Has Not Delivered

Josh Cobb and Patrick Jahn

Only two per cent of surveyed nurses have been tested for the hazardous drugs they handle at work.