How can the medication administration nurse safely identify residents who do not wear name bands, and why is this practice more common in long-term care? Caring for nursing home residents can be quite ...

No discussion of long-term care nursing is complete without broaching the topic of effective medication management. It is such a predominant part of the nursing routine that for some, a majority of ...

Between the release of the first CMS guidance establishing the 30-minute rule and the revocation of that guidance, the ISMP was not idle. In fact, the organization has accomplished something we have ...

In the pursuit of safer and more efficient medication administration practices, healthcare institutions around the world are embracing innovative solutions. The journey of implementing closed-loop ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to positively impact medication ...

For 11 years, Kathleen Abrahamson served as a nurse at several Midwest nursing homes, gaining firsthand knowledge of the problems surrounding medication administration, particularly for patients ...

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This study investigated the current status of nursing interruption events and analyzed the time costs, priority of events, and factors influencing interruptions. Objectives: To investigate the status ...

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

There were considerable differences in number and type of checking procedures among administration routes, professional groups, wards and ambulatory infusion units, and hospitals. During the ...

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 ...