The school nurse is often the only health professional in the building. The school nurse selects and trains UAPs annually and continually evaluates them for competence in performing a selected nursing ...

Educating patients/families regarding expected signs and symptoms related to use, and providing instructions for reporting these to nursing staff. The Safe Medication Administration Oxytocin Tool, ...

Study participants included 30 registered nurses who had at least one year of nursing experience in ... learned to identify errors in medication administration and improved adherence to safe ...

This study reports on nurses' self-reported violations in the medication administration process. Objective To assess the extent of violations in the medication administration process among nurses.

Introduction Older people in care homes are at increased risk of medication errors and adverse ... randomly selected from a purposive sample of UK nursing and residential homes. Errors were classified ...

Six experts from nursing, oncology, clinical pharmacy and hospital risk management gave feedback ... Third, a considerable fraction of nurses (11%) in our study reported that they did not know the ...

The objective of the ‘Discontinuing Inappropriate Medication in Nursing Home Residents’ (DIM-NHR) study is to examine the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the Multidisciplinary Multistep Medication ...

Consider holding tube feeding for at least one to two hours before and after medication administration if drug absorption may be affected.

How to use virtual reality in simulated practice to teach medicines management to nursing students Education on medication safety is an important part of reducing medication errors. Simulation ...

Background Medication errors have been reported to occur in 19.1% drug administration in children. 1 Double checking has been recommended to reduce medication errors in children. 2 There is ...