Nursing Practice Alerts

Recent Practice Alerts, provided by NYSNA's Nursing Education and Practice department.

Published Alerts

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just issued updated information and guidelines for evaluation of patients for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Infection.

On September 16, 2014, Governor Cuomo signed a bill that would go in to effect on December 15, 2014, allowing physicians and nurse practitioners to authorize registered nur

The anemia drug peginesatide (Omontys, Affymax and Takeda Pharmaceuticals) has been voluntarily recalled by the manufacturers, after reports of anaphylaxis leading to 3 deaths, the

In November 2012, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) revised its current standards for labels for heparin sodium injection solutions to help address safety concerns regarding the expr