Mary Breckinridge, like Florence Nightingale, created an educational legacy that is still in place today.
I participated in a Twitter chat Tuesday with the National Patient Safety Foundation (@theNPSF) about issues around patient safety. (Search for #PSAW17chat.) It is Patient Safety Awareness Week, so these conversations are especially vital now.
If you are in nursing, whether as an active nurse or as a nurse educator, you surely know the history of Florence Nightingale, the mother of the modern nursing profession. Through her actions as she pursued her own career in nursing, Nightingale showed the value in
At Pocket Nurse® we serve more than just nurses; we also serve allied health professionals. It’s crucial to understand this complex term in order to support our customers’ needs. I began learning about allied health in early 2016. Here is a short summary of what I learned.
In 2012, a multistate meningitis outbreak was traced to a contaminated compounded medication. In order to ensure patient safety and raise the quality of compounded medications, many boards of pharmacy decided to enhance and strengthen compounding regulations. To support healthcare organizations in complying with these requirements, the Joint Commission ...
