Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication errors that happen in schools are the same that occur in other settings, an expert said. New AAP ...

The ISMP reports that the feedback they received from nurses and other healthcare professionals on the medication administration guidelines was overwhelmingly positive. A very few respondents ...

A licensed practical nurse from Washington has been accused of administering medication without an order, according to a Washington Department of Health release. According to the release, the Nursing ...

Heather Hagner waited on edge for her 15-year-old son, Paxton, to come home from school Monday. When he did, he was a wreck, just as she feared. “He was completely nonverbal, having a full-blown ...

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 ...

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 ...

“There has not been a new law passed,” Superintendent Curtis Null said. “What this is, is a new interpretation of previous law.” The district has 80 registered nurses, eight licensed vocational nurses ...

Are you a nurse? Contact the WSWS with your story on conditions in the hospitals. Use the form at the end of this article to sign up for the WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter. Testimony has begun in ...

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The nurse did not seek or receive payment for the drugs, officials said, but wasted taxpayer money and medication due to "poor record-keeping." ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The homicide trial for former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught began in a Nashville courtroom Tuesday. She is accused of administering a patient a fatal dose of the wrong ...