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Category Archives: Nursing errors
The Risks of Tube Feeding
Your father is in the hospital after suffering a stroke. He is not alert enough to be able to swallow. Here are some ways he can be fed: • High calorie intravenous nutrition • A naso gastric tube that is … Continue reading
What could go wrong? Nursing malpractice examples
These examples represent some of the cases I have seen as a legal nurse consultant: * the hospitalized patient who was alert, oriented, and ambulatory until the nurse administered an inappropriate dose of Morphine, resulting in a serious overdose; * … Continue reading
Cardiac monitors – wrong patient name
There is a new alert from the patient safety organization, ECRI. They advise healthcare professionals to be alert to the risks of improperly identified cardiac monitors. Here is what happens. A patient in an intensive care unit or a telemetry … Continue reading
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Medical errors
Elizabeth Bewley is one of Avoid Medical Errors Magazine’s authors. A former executive of a Fortune 50 healthcare company, Elizabeth is a passionate advocate for patient safety. See one of her videos here. See more at www.killercure.net
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Tagged healthcare-caused death, hospital acquired infections, hospital medical negligence, iatrogenic injury, medical errors, medical malpractice, medication errors, nosocomial infections, what is medical malpractice, what is medical negligence
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PCA Morphine pump error
The nurse almost killed my mother I had just graduated nursing school. Now before that I was an EKG tech, monitor tech and worked in the emergency department as a ward clerk ALL before school so I had a very … Continue reading
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Tagged hospital medical negligence, how to be a patient advocate, medical malpractice attorneys, medical malpractice cases, morphine error, nursing error, PCA pump error, what is medical negligence
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