Maura Hohman

Mix medical alarms with vomiting, coughing, telephones and blaring intercoms and you’ve got a sonic torture chamber, AKA a hospital.

This comprehensive grading system for hospital safety found that patients at facilities with a D or F mark were 92% more likely to die of an avoidable error than those at A-ranked hospitals.

Currently, there’s no tool to help prescribers avoid mixing up drugs, but researchers have created a model to address the all-too-common mix-up of medications because they sound or look alike (SALA).

Check out the average salary for RNs, NPs and PAs working in the ICU and ED, and see how it compares to the national average.