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High-pressure tactics should raise a red flag
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When nurses override medication warnings, it places patients at a higher risk
Hospital pharmacies are responsible for clearing medication orders
Patient dies from nursing home fall despite documented high risk
Physician and nursing care should be patient-led rather than clicking boxes on a screen
How patients can overcome healthcare bias
Like everyone else, physicians, nurses, and other providers can be misguided by implicit biases
Man in 30s sent home from ER by nurse practitioner, dies of pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism blocks a blood vessel to one or both lungs
Texas health care informed consent is more than a rubber stamp process
Informed consent is a physician responsibility
Woman in her 20s has stroke, brain injury after chiropractic neck manipulation
Study finds 1 in 20,000 neck manipulations by chiropractors causes vertebral artery aneurysm or dissection
How a single nurse in an emergency room can doom a patient's health
Robert Painter explains how triage nurses can put patients on the wrong track in ED Management, a publication for emergency medicine malpractice prevention
What happens when nurses won't speak up and advocate for patients?
Nursing advocacy is essential to patient safety