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 ...

Nurses were more likely to be responsible for medication errors in EDs, according to a study published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. • Physicians were responsible for 24 percent of errors, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Anne Moronski was excited about the next phase of her life. After seven years at a therapeutic boarding school in ...

Credit: Getty Images. The new law had been strongly supported by the Kentucky Nurses Association, and was spurred at least in part by the 2022 felony homicide conviction of nurse RaDonda Vaught.

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 ...