Nursing attitudes and practices for routine I.V. catheter resiting.

Purpose: To understand nursing perceptions of hospital requirements for routine resiting of short peripheral catheters (SPCs).

Methods: This exploratory research project at the authors' medium-sized regional referral and trauma center utilized an online survey to assess the perceived efficacy and patient disruption related to SPC resiting among acute care nurses.

Results: Out of 203 eligible nurses, 81 participated.

An urban medical system's exploratory study of medication errors.

Aims: This study sought to identify patterns of medication errors with respect to shifts, day of week, unit involved, severity, medication class and cause of errors and to propose possible solutions.

Design: This was a retrospective explorative study using a database containing 605 medication events from two medical centres. Variables assessed include medication type, the error severity, and time the medication was ordered, the unit that the error occurred on and the day of the week of the errors.

Beyond fall risk assessment: A case-control study in an Urban Medical Center.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the characteristics of patients that fell and compare them with patients that did not fall and to seek differences between the two groups that might help better predict falls in future patients.

Background: It has been estimated that between 700,000 and one million inpatient falls occur yearly in hospitals in the United States, which results in an increase in healthcare costs of over $19 billion dollars per year.

Design: This was a case-control study employing a retrospective analysis of inpatient electronic health records.