We can all agree that accidents happen. It's just part of life. However, we have to be careful to ensure that our mistakes don’t become so big that they harm others. One school nurse made a major ...
Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 school board members have fired a school nurse under investigation for dispensing the wrong medication to students. During a special meeting Wednesday night, ...
A nurse is to stand trial charged with giving a man a fatal dose of a drug meant for another patient. Blake Dolan allegedly killed Martin Weldon, 36, at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in ...
After an investigation that took nearly four months, an Arlington Heights school nurse was charged Friday in connection with misappropriating medication prescribed to students, police said. Tory E.
Licensed nurses will now administer all medications at the Cass County Jail, saving the facility hundreds of hours in training for correctional officers. Cass County commissioners passed a motion ...
Q: We were recently cited for a nurse giving medications outside of the scheduled time. How can we reduce interruptions and stress to improve the med pass? A: We hear this concern often from nurse ...
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 ...
An Iowa nurse who stole pain medication from about 50 women in labor at a Waterloo hospital pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court. Christina Eileen Olson, formerly known as Christina Eileen Hovey, ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A bill that would give nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and nurse midwives the permission to prescribe certain medications without a doctor’s supervision is ...
HENDERSON, Texas (KLTV) - In early August, the Texas School Nurses Organization announced they would make some changes to guidelines for the administration of over-the-counter medications. This is the ...