The last element of the 5 Rs -- right time -- has often been governed by the "30-minute medication rule." For as long as many nurses can remember, every hospital, unit, and nurse has passed ...

Boston Children’s Hospital was facing several problems that it had hoped it could solve with some new clinical tools. The top problem was that its communications channels were not integrated into the ...

A multidisciplinary team was assembled to perform an FMEA of the i.v. medication administration process incorporating pump technology and to report its findings to the hospital performance-improvement ...