ICU Nurses Offered Tool to Prevent Deadly Medication Mistakes

GUERNEVILLE, Calif., Nov. 9, 2009 — Hospital Intensive Care Units are among the most expensive costs in the U.S. health care industry. Intensive Care Units represent 10% of acute care beds, costing billions of dollars annually.

Patients in ICU areas are typically very ill; their problems can be c…

New Survey Finds Doctors and Nurses Behaving Badly

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 3, 2009 — Screaming matches in front of bewildered patients. Angry surgeons hurling instruments across the operating room. Treachery and backstabbing as physicians and nurses try to undermine one another.

It may sound like a script from a television medical drama, but these ki…