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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
April 26, 2010 — Nurses who are interrupted while administering medications may have an increased risk of making medication errors, according to the results of an observational study reported in the ...
The Minnesota Department of Health's Office of Health Facility Complaints has substantiated a complaint of neglect at a Rochester nursing home.
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 and Syringe Safety Are Top Concerns for Nurses According to New National Study Page 1: The 2007 Study of Injectable Medication Errors gathered opinions of 1,039 U.S. nurses about ...
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 ...
Our 21-year-old daughter with a disability was overdosed with her own medication within two days of entering a New Jersey group home. She died in an emergency room on June 24, 2024, after she was ...
LITTLE ROCK — Federal statistics indicate that significant medication errors are discovered on average in one of every five of the state’s 234 nursing homes. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports ...
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