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Surveyors walking through an ED see medication by a patient's bedside table with no staff in the vicinity. Or a medication is lying in plain sight on a counter by the nurse's station, and visitors have full access to it.
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Most ED nurses breathed a sign of relief after The Joint Commission approved an interim action, effective Jan. 1, 2007, that changed the requirement for pharmacy review of ED medication orders (element of performance [EP] 1 for standard 4.10 of medication management).
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common infectious cause of death in adults worldwide after HIV/AIDS.
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A 40-year-old man approached triage nurses at Marion (OH) General Hospital's ED clutching his chest, but he didn't speak a word of English.
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Imagine being in horrible pain and knowing exactly what medication you need to control it, coming to an ED . . . and waiting an hour and a half for relief. Researchers recently looked at 612 patient visits for sickle cell disease (SCD) having an acute pain episode, and they found that took an average of 90 minutes for administration of an initial analgesic.
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GlaxoSmithKline's rosiglitazone (Avandia) will receive a black box warning by the FDA because of concerns over heart failure associated with use of the drug.
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