This blog is written in response to the blog, 98,000 Reasons to Care about Patient Safety, by Jane Ayre at InjuryBoard.com. This is the number of Americans who die from medical errors each year. As...
Deciphering a medical record can be a real headache, especially handwritten records. Once you break through the handwriting code, you have to deal with the alphabet soup that is medical jargon....
I received a handbook from the State of Alabama Department of Public Health yesterday about preparing for the pandemic flu. Since I have never received anything from this agency, I took it...
A recent position paper by the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society discussed avoidable versus unavoidable pressure ulcers. The paper concluded that there are clinical circumstances in which a...
This is the final installment in Protecting Yourself from Medication Errors. In Part II, I will discuss protecting you from medication errors in the hospital.
Part III – The Hospital
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This is the final installment in Protecting Yourself from Medication Errors. In Part II, I will discuss protecting you from medication errors in the hospital.
Part III – The Hospital
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