The Institute for Safe Medication Practices outlines 15 hospital best practices medication safety strategies to reduce errors and improve patient care.
Study finds that medication administration processes (MAPs) are frequently interrupted and these disruptions may create an opportunity for patient harm. Preparing medications for distribution to a ...
A female Pharmacist scanning pill box. Barcode technology can reduce medication errors by ensuring that the right drug is administered to the right patient at the right time, in the right dose, using ...
Nursing has few universally inviolable rules. Any nurse who has worked in more than a single hospital throughout his or her career understands the extent to which nursing practice can vary from one ...
Purpose: The impact of an interactive CD-ROM program on the rate of medication administration errors made by nurses was studied. Methods: This randomized, controlled, nonblinded study was conducted at ...
Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence ...
One of the most serious responsibilities that healthcare providers have is administering medications correctly. There are seven rights of medication administration and three checks to protect patients ...
The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...
CMS has issued a revision to its “30-minute” rule on the administration of medication in hospitals, according to a Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program blog post and a copy of the notification ...
A 49 year old woman was diagnosed with Philadelphia negative B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and subsequently started on induction chemotherapy with systemic cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, ...
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