Nursing Medical Errors Articles

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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Medication errors: a focus on nursing practice | Journal of ...

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One of the main branches of medical errors is medication errors which were demonstrated to be the source of morbidity and mortality in addition to the resulted …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Medical errors cost approximately $20 billion a year. Medical errors in hospitals and clinics result in approximately 100,000 people dying each year. Medical …

Update: RaDonda Vaught Sentenced to 3 Years Supervised …

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Nurses will be afraid to admit to medical errors or to report others' errors. "The criminalization of medical errors is unnerving, and this verdict sets into motion a …

Confronting Medical Error : AJN The American Journal of …

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Confronting Medical Error Brown, Theresa PhD, RN Author Information AJN, American Journal of Nursing: June 2020 - Volume 120 - Issue 6 - p 17 doi: …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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Due to unclear definitions, “medical errors” are difficult to scientifically measure. A lack of …

Reducing medication errors in nursing practice - PubMed

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The prevention of medication errors, which can happen at every stage of the medication preparation and distribution process, is essential to maintain a safe …

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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The most common medical errors in the United States by occurrence are: adverse drug events, catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), central line …

Should A Nurse's Fatal Medical Error Be Prosecuted?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/10/709971677/when-a-nurse-is-prosecuted-for-a-fatal-medical-mistake-does-it-make-medicine-saf

A former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., was arrested and charged with reckless homicide and abuse in February for making a …

6 Medication Error Stories That Made …

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As The Sacramento Bee reports, referencing a CDPH regulator report, the patient's heart stopped following administration of Levophed, a blood pressure drug. While …

Nursing Errors Led to My Son's Unexpected …

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Nursing errors contributed to Tyler’s death The hospital has made a “partial admission” that the nurses failed to care for Tyler in the correct way. The nurse that …