Each year, medication errors are responsible for 7,000 patient deaths and cost the healthcare system $2 billion. Even more shocking, perhaps, is the knowledge that nearly 50% of potential medication ...
The College of Registered Nurses and Midwives of P.E.I. has suspended a nurse for 90 days because of what the college called ...
During the Pandemic, Aspire to Identify and Prevent Medication Errors and to Avoid Blaming Attitudes
Some nurses will also leave extra infusions at the bedside so they can be spiked and hung by any nurse entering the room. ISMP recently spoke to a hospital nurse working in a location where the ...
GASSVILLE -- Linda Cooper spent her final days in a north Arkansas nursing home working crossword puzzles -- always in ink. Hers wasn't a slow spiral into death's grasp. It was sudden. The 65-year-old ...
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 ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS 12) — When you put a person in a nursing home, you expect them to get the proper care, but we found out not only are people not getting that care, the mistakes being made ...
Four nursing homes have been fined by the state in connection with medication errors or residents who fell, broke bones or wandered outside alone. On March 15, Leeway Inc. of New Haven was fined ...
Receiving calls on their work phones may lead nurses in the pediatric intensive care unit to make mistakes in administering medications, but text messages were not associated with errors, a study ...
San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) September 19, 2007 -- A new website, Medication-Error-Review-for-Lawyers.com, works with attorneys to uncover fault in giving out medications to patients in nursing homes and ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four years ago, inside the most prestigious hospital in Tennessee, nurse RaDonda Vaught withdrew a vial from an electronic medication cabinet, administered the drug to a patient, ...
The ISMP guidelines are not designed to be adopted unchanged by hospitals to represent the hospital's medication administration policies. Instead, the ISMP believes that each hospital (through an ...
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