Medication Safety

 Med Check: Drug alert: New guidelines for acetaminophen products
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, May/June 2012

 Preventing and Reporting Adverse Drug Events: Pharmacovigilance for the Clinical Nurse Specialist
Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, May/June 2012

 Implementing a Safe and Reliable Process for Medication Administration
Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, May/June 2012

 A Systematic Approach to Improving Medication Safety in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit 
Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, January/March 2012  

 Med Report: Challenges of medication administration in the OR 
OR Nurse 2012, January 2012 

  Adverse Drug Events in the Emergency Department: Why Genetics Matters in Practice 
Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, January/March 2012  

 Chemotherapy in Home Care One Team's Performance Improvement Journey Toward Reducing Medication Errors 
Home Healthcare Nurse, January 2012  

 Med Check: OTC meds: Know what your patient is taking 
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, November/December 2011   

 Tech Update: Realizing efficiencies with bar code medication administration 
Nursing Management, November 2011  

 HPNA Position Statement: Medication Error Reporting in the Home Setting
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, September/ October 2011

  Descriptive Analysis of Workflow Variables Associated With Barcode-Based Approach to Medication Administration
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, October/December 2011

  Med Check: Is tablet splitting safe?
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, September/October 2011

  Medication Errors Reported in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for Oncologic Patients
Cancer Nursing, September/October 2011

  Med Check: How to prevent LASA drug errors
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, March/April 2011

  The Application of Aronson's Taxonomy to Medication Errors in Nursing
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, April/June 2011

  Creative Strategies to Improve Patient Safety: Allergies and Adverse Drug Reactions
Journal for Nurses in Staff Development, January/February 2011

  Over-the-counter medications and pregnancy: An integrative review
The Nurse Practitioner, June 2011

  Tips & Strategies: Polypharmacy: Enhancing Medication Safety
Alzheimer's Care Today, October/December 2010

  Med Check: How can we prevent medication errors?
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, November/December 2010

  A New Approach to Tracking the Harmfulness of Medical Errors in Health Care Systems
Quality Management in Health Care, October/December 2010

  ADEs and automation
Nursing Management, January 2009

  Factors Associated With Reporting of Medication Errors by Israeli Nurses
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, October/Decembe r2008

  PRACTICE ERRORS: What Drugs Are You On?
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, September 2008

  DOING IT BETTER: Improving medication adherence with orally disintegrating tablets
Nursing2006, September 2006

  Medication reconciliation: keeping our patients safe
Nursing2006 Critical Care, March 2006

  HIGH TECH/HIGH CARE: Pump away high-risk infusion errors
Men in Nursing, April 2006

  Effective Strategies to Increase Reporting of Medication Errors in Hospitals
JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, January 2006

  Pump away high-risk infusion errors
Nursing Management, December 2005

  I.V. ROUNDS: Giving medication by retrograde infusion
Nursing2005, November 2005

  Medication Reconciliation: Verifying medication orders and clarifying discrepancies should be standard practice
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, November 2005

  Managing a New Medication Administration Process
JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, September 2005

  Intravenous Medication Safety and Smart Infusion Systems: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities
Journal of Infusion Nursing, September/October 2005

  CHART SMART: Documenting an adverse drug reaction
Nursing2005, October 2005

  Best-practice protocols: Preventing adverse drug events
Nursing Management, September 2005

  Inappropriate Drug Prescriptions for Older Adults
Home Healthcare Nurse, August 2005

  Practice Errors: Not All Brands Are Created Equal: Foreign drug names may be the same, but are the ingredients?
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, August 2005

  Perceptions of Medical Errors by Internal Medicine Residents Development and Validation of a New Scale
Quality Management in Health Care, July/September 2005

  Keeping Track of the Patch: Transdermal delivery in obese patients.
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, June 2005

  MEDICATION SAFETY: Look-Alike/Sound-Alike Drugs in Home
Home Healthcare Nurse, April 2005

  Save Haven: How to make drug delivery safer
LPN2005, May/June 2005

  Medication Management
Health Care Food & Nutrition Focus, April 2005

  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST: The Use of Bar Code Technology in Medication Administration
Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, March/April 2005

  State of the Science on Safe Medication Administration
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, March 2005

  Reducing Medical Errors through Better Documentation
The Health Care Manager, October/December 2004

  Bar Codes and Drug Administration: Can new technology reduce the number of medication errors?
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, January 2004

  Medication Error Prevention: Progress of Initiatives
JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation, March 2004

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