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 ...
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 ...
A new study suggests that while nursing home staffers know about virtually all medication errors that occur at their facility, only 5 percent of errors ever get reported to facility managers. To ...
While medication errors are still a frequent occurrence in nursing homes, their impact on the actual health of patients is limited, suggests new study findings published in the Journal of the American ...
The case has rocked the medical profession. On March 25, 2022, a Tennessee jury found a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide and negligent abuse 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nurse-turned-attorney Hahnah Williams told Insider the guilty verdict could deter nurses from coming forward when they make a mistake. Hospitals depend on healthcare practitioners to be honest about ...
Learn how medication errors lead to clinical negligence claims, from prescription failures to administration mistakes and ...
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 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 ...