As a self-proclaimed lifelong learner and former educator, Amy Boyington is passionate about researching and advocating for learners of all ages. For over a decade, Amy has specialized in writing ...

Study finds that medication administration processes (MAPs) are frequently interrupted and these disruptions may create an opportunity for patient harm. Preparing medications for distribution to a ...

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 ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(24):2347-2357. Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication errors that happen in schools are the same that occur in other settings, an expert said. New AAP ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

I am responsible for the medication pass and worried about doing it with surveyors watching. Can you give me a few tips? First, I recommend that you pass medications with a routine every day. Be ...

Detroit-based Wayne State University researchers found a standardized hand-off procedure between hospitals to skilled nursing facilities that improved communication and decreased late medication ...

Evening administration of blood pressure (BP)-lowering medications did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular events or death compared with morning administration, according to late-breaking research ...

As the Biden administration transitions into governance, all eyes are on the policies they will enact in a number of key areas, no doubt healthcare being one of them. While the administration is eager ...

The administration of medications via enteral feeding tubes is a vital practice in the care of patients who are unable to ingest drugs orally. This route enables the delivery of essential treatments ...