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 ...

Nurses were more likely to be responsible for medication errors in EDs, according to a study published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. • Physicians were responsible for 24 percent of errors, ...

Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...

The Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission has charged two unnamed nurses at Seattle Children’s Hospital with unprofessional conduct and violations of nursing standards in separate cases of medical ...

The Minnesota Department of Health's Office of Health Facility Complaints has substantiated a complaint of neglect at a Rochester nursing home.

The California Department of Public Health found that Adventist Health Simi Valley, seen here on Sept. 22, "failed to ensure that patients had been protected from medication errors." (Myung J. Chun / ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — After CBS 6's reporting into the state's delayed and backlogged efforts to inspect and investigate Virginia's nursing homes, the health department completed a complaint ...

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 ...