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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...