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 ...

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 ...

In long-term care, few changes feel more consequential than altering how medications are administered. Medication passes are not just a task; they are deeply tied to assessment, observation and ...

While hospitals and health systems have seen improvements in nurse turnover and recruitment since the height of the pandemic, many continue to have a particularly hard time staffing medical-surgical ...

Among over 60,000 nursing home residents who initiated antihypertensive medication, rates of excess fractures due to falls per 100 person-years were as high as 5 among certain patient groups, such as ...

Health officials are rolling out regulations to implement a 2024 law legalizing the use of certified medication aides in long-term care facilities, rules that supporters say will help address severe ...