Suicide attempt via sodium pentobarbital is uncommon. A 48-year-old woman with a history of depression and prior suicide attempt was found unresponsive by her veterinarian spouse near a syringe containing pink solution. Upon EMS' arrival, the patient was experiencing apnea, hypoxemia, and miotic pupils; her blood glucose level measured 73 mg/dL. She was bradycardic and administered atropine wit...

Background For many individuals, asthma has great impact on their everyday life, not least in terms of medication treatment and disease management. Therefore, it is important to evaluate recommended treatments on an individual level. In that respect, estimations of health-related quality of life (HRQL) function as an essential health outcome, as they capture personal perspectives and experience...

ACCP is committed to ensuring that clinical pharmacists possess the competencies necessary to deliver comprehensive medication management in team-based, direct patient care environments. These competencies are divided into six essential domains: direct patient care, pharmacotherapy knowledge, systems-based care and population health, communication, professionalism, and continuing professional d...

OBJECTIVE To improve understanding of the medication reconciliation process, its effect on patient care and outcomes, and how pharmacists can contribute to improving this process using a standardized framework of service delivery defined in the context of medication therapy management. SUMMARY Medication reconciliation is an integral part of the care transitions process in which health care p...

INTRODUCTION Medication errors have significant implications on patient safety. Error detection through an active management and effective reporting system discloses medication errors and encourages safe practices. OBJECTIVES To improve patient safety through determining and reducing the major causes of medication errors (MEs), after applying tailored preventive strategies. METHODOLOGY A pr...

assignments, as those close together were still poorly correlated. More likely, physicians were taking into account variables not contained in the MEWS, in assigning a PAR score. We conclude that the combined use of PAR and MEWS is more accurate than MEWS alone. A generalizable way to incorporate clinical judgment into aggregated weighted scoring systemson thewardsmay improvedetectionof clinica...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a set of interventions in reducing the interruption/distraction rate during medication administration. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Pre- and postintervention observational study of nurses undertaking medication rounds. SETTING Acute Medical Admissions Unit (AMAU) of a 1000-bed teaching hospital. INTERVENTION A set of measures previously proven successful in re...

The American Society for Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN) has updated its 2007 position statement on the use of authorized agent controlled analgesia (AACA) for patients who are unable to independently utilize patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). ASPMN continues to support the use of AACA to provide timely and effective pain management while promoting equitable care for vulnerable patient populat...

A profusion of valuable technology is available to provide nursing students with realistic training of fundamental nursing skills. Use of simulation technology to provide medication administration training has been demonstrated to improve safety in the adult and pediatric clinical settings (Pauly-O’Neill, 2009; Sears, Goldsworthy, & Goodman, 2010). In 2012, the Division of Nursing at Bob Jones ...

background: self-medication by people is one of the major issues in the world that can be lead to numerous medical and economic problems, this especially issue in children under 2 years who are at the age of growth and development have great importance. the aim of this study was investigate the effects of model-based educational interventions on self-medication behavior in mothers with children...