Showing posts with label Medication Administration Errors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medication Administration Errors. Show all posts
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Medication Errors, FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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FDA receives medication error reports 4 on marketed human drugs (including prescription drugs, generic drugs, and over-the-counter drugs) ...
Friday, July 8, 2011

When Nurse Make Mistakes (Theresa Brown, RN) - NYTimes.com

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By THERESA BROWN, R.N. This year, a Seattle nurse named Kim Hiatt committed suicide. Ms. Hiatt’s death came nearly seven months after she h...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Many paid caregivers lack health literacy skills :: May 4, 2011 ... American Medical News

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More than a third of the people paid to care for seniors are not health literate, and 60% wrongly interpret the instructions on prescriptio...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Silent Treatment Study, silenttreatmentstudy.com #rnchat #nursing #nurses

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Research and regulatory bodies have long confirmed that poor communication in healthcare is harmful at best and deadly at worst. In the 2...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

amednews: 1 in 3 patients harmed during hospital stay :: April 18, 2011 ... American Medical News

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By Kevin B. O'Reilly , amednews staff. Posted April 18, 2011. One-third of hospital patients experience adverse events and ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Nurse's suicide follows tragedy | Seattle Times Newspaper

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By Carol M. Ostrom Seattle Times health reporter Related Crisis ...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Not Running a Hospital: Painfully slow

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You can already imagine the responses. "That's just in North Carolina." "Our patients are sicker." "There a...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Drug Errors on the Rise - NYTimes.com

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The number of people treated in hospitals in the United States for problems related to medication errors has surged more than 50 percent in...

Partnership for Patients - Win, Win, Win for American Healthcare

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It's called the Partnership for Patients .  (I like it already - it's focused on patients.)  It's a program being developed by...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Errors still common in U.S. hospitals | Reuters

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About one in three people in the United States will encounter some kind of mistake during a hospital stay, U.S. researchers said Thursday. ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

How safe is your hospital? - chicagotribune.com

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Just before it was disclosed that a medical error at the University of Chicago led to the death of James Tyree, a well-known financier and...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Nursing Malpractice Case Studies By Date, NursingCaseStudy.com

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ShareThis Buzz up! 9 votes Editors Note: The urls to these cases ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Admitting harm protects patients - Sunday, March 27, 2011 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

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As Nevada legislators debate this week whether to require hospitals to publicly report when they harm patients , they could learn a lot fro...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

How to Give an IM Injection, Kathy Quan RN BSN

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When it is necessary to inject medication, the route is determined by the chemical make up and viscosity of the medication. Many times the ...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Pain Medication Mistakes: Overdoses, Side Effects, and More

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It's been a hard day, and Joe's back is killing him. His wife has some Percocet left over from a trip to the dentist, and there&#...