Last week during Patient Safety Awareness Week, the next interview from the New York Times caught my attention. In , Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director...
Any article that has the word “tips” or “list” within the title all the time catches my attention. For me, these words mean that the article...
As I discussed in a previous post, some of the stressful things I experienced in nursing school was remembering all the data about medications. I remember...
A recent study published in a journal checked out medication errors from the nurses’ perspective. Researchers sought details about error reporting, the importance of technology in...
How a lot of us take ibuprofen or naproxen once we experience aches or perhaps a headache without considering twice about it. If you are like...
Last week during RNchat, a Twitter chat for nurses, the discussion turned to the importance of communication. I used to be reminded that communication just isn’t...
Recent reports of whooping cough outbreaks leading to newborn deaths are causing serious concern within the medical community. In August 2006 and again in July 2010,...
In the most recent issue of the monthly magazine , Anthony Hoffman BSN, RN, describes his experiences as a diabetes educator in Nouakchott, Mauritania (situated on...
Recently, I used to be informed a couple of major problem with the supply of medicines for consumers and healthcare institutions. My youngest daughter is allergic...
I remember a patient with an upper gastrointestinal bleed, a Minnesota tube in place, on maximum ventilatory support, and two blood pressure machines, who obviously wasn’t...
