A majority of nurses — 83 percent — reported that they further dilute certain IV push medications for adult patients prior to administration, according to a survey conducted by the Institute for Safe ...
Some medications must be given by an intravenous (IV) injection or infusion. This means they’re sent directly into your vein using a needle or tube. In fact, the term “intravenous” means “into the ...
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 ...
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 ...
How can the medication administration nurse safely identify residents who do not wear name bands, and why is this practice more common in long-term care? Caring for nursing home residents can be quite ...
The Nursing Informatics-Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), recently named a research paper by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing Professor ...
Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence is recommended as the key to effectiveness. Independent double-checking ...
"Our goal was to demonstrate that auto-programming provides an additional layer of safety than the stand-alone technologies and by streamlining the IV medication ...
WellSpan Health and CareFusion, a BD company (NYSE: BDX), today announced the successful implementation of the Alaris ® System across all four WellSpan hospitals, with WellSpan York Hospital becoming ...
In 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Appendix A, Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidance for Hospitals, which spells out the conditions of participation ...
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