The last element of the 5 Rs -- right time -- has often been governed by the "30-minute medication rule." For as long as many nurses can remember, every hospital, unit, and nurse has passed ...
The College of Registered Nurses and Midwives of P.E.I. has suspended a nurse for 90 days because of what the college called ...
WASHINGTON – Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.At least a quarter of the errors are ...
Learn how medication errors lead to clinical negligence claims, from prescription failures to administration mistakes and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Potentially harmful medication administration errors are very rare in assisted living settings, the result of a study of 12 facilities in three states suggests. Assisted ...
Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...
A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence, detects potential errors in medication delivery. In a test whose results ...
Nursing has few universally inviolable rules. Any nurse who has worked in more than a single hospital throughout his or her career understands the extent to which nursing practice can vary from one ...