A majority of nurses — 83 percent — reported that they further dilute certain IV push medications for adult patients prior to administration, according to a survey conducted by the Institute for Safe ...

Some medications must be given by an intravenous (IV) injection or infusion. This means they’re sent directly into your vein using a needle or tube. In fact, the term “intravenous” means “into 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 ...

The people who are most likely to catch the medication errors are registered nurses, according to a study in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship. The study, funded by the philanthropic Robert Wood ...

Being an intravenous nurse involves a lot more than sticking patients with needles. This specialty branch of nursing, with teams in most major hospitals, requires ...

The Nursing Informatics-Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), recently named a research paper by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing Professor ...

"Our goal was to demonstrate that auto-programming provides an additional layer of safety than the stand-alone technologies and by streamlining the IV medication ...

Karen Giuliano, nursing co-director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, does research in the center's IV lab. A nurse-engineer team at the University of Massachusetts ...

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 ...

NIMOTOP (nimodipine) is a calcium channel blocker indicated for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. It improves neurological outcome by relaxing cerebral smooth muscle vasculature and preventing ...