It is estimated that 237 million medication errors occur in the NHS in England every year across acute, community, general practice, learning difficulties and mental health settings. Drug calculation ...

The lack of basic maths skills can be a major problem when it comes to nurses administering drugs to patients. Calculations are still a significant source of drug ...

Drug calculations is a very hard course for many nursing students. A specially made computer game, developed in Norway, is set to help them pass a vitally important exam. Drug calculations is a very ...

On Thursday, the Therapeutic Research Center — a provider of digital medication learning materials for healthcare providers — launched a new online resource for hospital nurses to assist these ...

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 ...

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 ...