To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) One evening, my 92-year-old patient was ...

Electronic vital sign monitors have been common in hospitals for more than 40 years. On TV or in movies, they start making noises, and doctors and nurses come running, yelling things like “stat!” If ...

Observations of the vital signs of hospitalised patients are missed at night and it is not clear why this happens. Even when the frequency of observations increases in line with the severity of a ...