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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Four nursing homes have been fined by the state in connection with medication errors or residents who fell, broke bones or wandered outside alone. On March 15, Leeway Inc. of New Haven was fined ...

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 ...

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) September 19, 2007 -- A new website, Medication-Error-Review-for-Lawyers.com, works with attorneys to uncover fault in giving out medications to patients in nursing homes and ...

Learn how medication errors lead to clinical negligence claims, from prescription failures to administration mistakes and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our 21-year-old daughter with a disability was overdosed with her own medication within two days of entering a New Jersey group ...