Unfortunately, nursing home abuse occurs more frequently than you might think, even in the Puget Sound region. While many forms of abuse leave physical marks (like a scratch or bruise), some forms of ...

Seven nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection with medication errors or residents who fell or sustained broken bones. On Feb. 5, two fines totaling $2,740 ...

Critical care nurses’ overall health is related to the number of medical errors they report, according to new research published May 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care. The study — led by ...

A bold wellness program is not a 'warm and fuzzy,' but a foundational way to boost the health of nurses, patients, and a hospital's bottom line, study author says. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic ...

If a nurse makes a medical error that causes your loved one to get sick or die, should she be held criminally liable? It’s a question at the center of a heated ...

Medication errors are an all-too-common problem in the U.S. In fact, they affect nearly 5 percent of the nation’s hospitalized patients, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In ...

Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...

It's happened again. Two more St. Luke's Hospital patients have been given too much medication. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reports nursing errors led to two patients receiving 10 times 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 ...

A new research letter published in JAMA Health Forum highlights major gaps in how opioid use is tracked among older adults ...