Seven nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection with medication errors or residents who fell or sustained broken bones. On Feb. 5, two fines totaling $2,740 ...
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 ...
Quesnel, British Columbia / / August 7, 2025 / EPIC Webinars Key Takeaways: Up to 94% of nurses experience burnout symptoms, ...
Critical care nurses’ overall health is related to the number of medical errors they report, according to new research published May 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care. The study — led by ...
Amid Medicare Advantage’s rise, future policy shifts – including faster prior authorization requirements and Medicaid cuts – ...
A bold wellness program is not a 'warm and fuzzy,' but a foundational way to boost the health of nurses, patients, and a hospital's bottom line, study author says. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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 ...
This study investigated the current status of nursing interruption events and analyzed the time costs, priority of events, and factors influencing interruptions. Objectives: To investigate the status ...
Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...
It's happened again. Two more St. Luke's Hospital patients have been given too much medication. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reports nursing errors led to two patients receiving 10 times the ...
A resident at a nursing home in Buffalo, Minn., did not receive her newly prescribed potassium-replacement medication, an oversight connected to her death in January 2010, a state investigation ...
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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