Abstract
In an American journal article last month, I read with interest about the 30-minute rule for drug administration (Smetzer et al, 2010). This is a guideline that dictates that all scheduled medications must be administered within 30 minutes before or after the scheduled time. A survey prompted a massive response from 17 500 nurses highlighting the difficulty with complying with this rule, and that although 70% of organizations enforced the rule, only 5% were able to comply. This, along with the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) Rapid Response Report (RRR) 2010) on reducing the harm from omitted and delayed medicines in hospital, made me think about practice within my own Trust, practice on a wider scale and more specifically, within IV therapy:
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