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This certificate program for laboratory professionals offers six courses aimed at enhancing participants' skills in establishing a just culture, identifying safety hazards, and assessing gaps in processes to reduce risks of specimen management errors.

This monthly selection reports on two pediatric deaths due to severe hyponatremia following postoperative fluid administration. Errors involving a missing dose clarification request, a related near miss, and medication name confusion are also described.

This monthly selection of error reports shares examples of topical anesthetic error, methotrexate overdose, and child-proof medicine cap dangers.

This monthly selection of medication error reports includes examples of drug name confusion, communication failures, and insulin pen misuse.

This monthly selection of error reports includes examples of confusion regarding medication delivery instructions and sound-alike mistakes involving epinephrine and ephedrine.

This monthly selection of reports includes errors involving epidural medication administered intravenously and mistaken reuse of discontinued drugs.

This monthly selection of medication error reports describes a case of misidentifying home medications for a hospitalized patient, how character space limitations in medication administration records may cause medication errors, and fatal misuse of a fentanyl patch on a child. 

This monthly analysis examines recently reported errors in prescribing fentanyl patches, ordering insulin, and administering vincristine.

In this article, a nurse shares her firsthand account of what it was like to be a surgical patient and the surprising safety and quality shortcomings she encountered during her hospital stay.

This monthly selection of medication error reports provides examples from the field of potential errors and helpful tips on how to avoid similar mistakes.