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 ...

Medication errors are an all-too-common problem in the U.S. In fact, they affect nearly 5 percent of the nation’s hospitalized patients, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In ...

Reclaiming nursing time patient care through automation improves medication workflows and reduces nurse burnout in hospitals nationwide.

Building closer relationships with facility staff and health care partners of nursings homes, such as hospital providers and pharmacies, is going to be ...

The Austrian Health and Nursing Association is calling for a faster implementation of the expansion of competencies for nursing professionals. It concerns allowing nurses to prescribe simple ...

WESTFIELD — Gerri Smith has been a nurse practitioner for 32 years. Originally working in gynecology, she started working in breast health when she came to Baystate Health in 2016. She works in a ...

Nursing has few universally inviolable rules. Any nurse who has worked in more than a single hospital throughout his or her career understands the extent to which nursing practice can vary from one ...