The ISMP guidelines are not designed to be adopted unchanged by hospitals to represent the hospital's medication administration policies. Instead, the ISMP believes that each hospital (through an ...

A Measure of Safety: Preventing Infection During Medication Administration The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from ...

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 ...