FILE - RaDonda Vaught and her attorney, Peter Strianse, talk with reporters after a court hearing on Feb. 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Vaught, a former Tennessee ...

A boy died when it went undetected that he had stopped breathing because a senior nurse failed to connect him to monitors while he was in intensive care at a private children's hospital, a court has ...

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 ...

Lack of medical device connectivity and interoperability are big contributors to preventable medical errors, according to a recent survey of nurses. According to the 526 registered nurses who ...

Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...

Critical care nurses (CCNs) across the country reported high levels of stress, depression, and anxiety even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and these factors correlated with an increase in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error killed a patient argued Tuesday that ...

Instead, they found her guilty of the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. She was also found guilty of gross neglect of an impaired adult. After the Tuesday hearing, Vaught said she would ...