Unfortunately, nursing home abuse occurs more frequently than you might think, even in the Puget Sound region. While many forms of abuse leave physical marks (like a scratch or bruise), some forms of ...
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 ...
'It truly has proven to be an additional layer of support to enhance patient care and outcomes,' nurse executive says. What began as an innovative way to monitor and care for COVID-19 patients at the ...
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 ...
Medication errors are an all-too-common problem in the U.S. In fact, they affect nearly 5 percent of the nation’s hospitalized patients, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In ...
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, ...
It's happened again at St. Luke's Hospital; patients getting too much medication. The State Health Department says nursing errors led to two patients receiving ten times the amount of drugs prescribed ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday. She was also ...
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 ...