A new skilled nursing facility validation program could be the “tip of the iceberg” in verifying provider quality ...

Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

Nurses can often be rushed on their shifts as they care for a large number of patients, and unfortunately, errors sometimes occur. Here are the most common nursing errors and tips to avoid mistakes.

Instead, report many nurses, documentation is taking longer than ever. One nurse believes that since going live, EHRs have added 3 hours to a 12-hour shift. The extra time that EHRs take has many ...

Seven nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection with medication errors and incidents in which residents were burned or broke a leg.

We all need to aspire to identify and prevent errors and to avoid blaming attitudes when medication errors happen—and they will! Identifying errors during the pandemic.

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 $2,7… ...

That includes patient handoffs. Rocchio said Mercy targeted that pain point with an AI tool, aiming to improve an often confusing process that accounts for roughly 80% of documentation errors.

An Iowa hospital nurse accused of “incompetent or unsafe nursing practices” has agreed to surrender her license.