In nursing school, you learn to avoid mistakes at all costs, as medical errors can result in physical injury or even death. This expectation creates a significant amount of fear and shame around ...

Q: What does the recent conviction of former nurse RaDonda Vaught teach us about medical errors and how to avoid them? A: In late March, RaDonda Vaught was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired ...

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

When Dr. David Friedman was a young doctor in South Africa, he didn’t know much. But one thing he did know was what drugs his patients were receiving in the cardiac unit of the old Johannesburg ...

RaDonda Vaught’s conviction sent shockwaves through the health care community and raised concerns about practitioners becoming criminally liable for unintentional errors. The New Law Kentucky’s new ...

Jan. 23 -- THURSDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Nurses want to, and should be, included in the discussion when physicians talk to patients about serious medical mistakes that were made, a new study ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A team of University of Iowa researchers is adapting technology used in hospitals to help school nurses. The Electronic School Medication Administration Record, or eSMAR ...

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 ...

A middle-aged man with sepsis from a diabetic foot wound was admitted to a rural Utah hospital. It was clear the patient needed to be transferred to University of Utah Health for specialty care.

AI head-cameras trained to spot and prevent mistakes in medication By Ben Coxworth October 22, 2024 The system is intended to prevent "vial-swap" errors, which can prove fatal in some instances ...