Medication safety is a cornerstone of nursing practice, directly influencing patient outcomes and professional accountability. From applying structured safety guidelines to leveraging simulation and ...

While medication errors are still a frequent occurrence in nursing homes, their impact on the actual health of patients is limited, suggests new study findings published in the Journal of the American ...

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In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, Drexel University nursing and medical students joined together online for a large-scale simulation of the critical conversations physicians and ...

A new analysis points to surprisingly low rates of serious impacts from medication errors affecting nursing home residents, despite the fact that these errors remain fairly common. The investigators ...

The authors leave open the possibility that current reporting systems are not catching the impact of all medication errors. A different study earlier this year found that medical errors, including ...

Medication errors in Illinois nursing homes are leading to hospitalizations for dangerously low blood sugar, visual hallucinations and labored breathing, according to information obtained by NBC 5 ...

A nearly half-million-dollar grant will allow Yakima Valley College’s nursing program to upgrade its simulation equipment, which students use to experience medical symptoms and situations. The ...