Correction Policy
Last updated: July 14, 2026
At NurseOnShift, accuracy is fundamental to our mission of providing useful, understandable, and trustworthy information for nurses, nursing students, healthcare professionals, and members of the public.
Healthcare guidance, professional requirements, educational information, and nursing regulations can change. Despite our editorial review processes, errors may occasionally occur. When they do, we are committed to investigating them fairly, correcting them promptly, and explaining significant changes transparently.
This Corrections Policy applies to all content published by NurseOnShift, including:
- Medical and clinical education articles
- Medication and condition guides
- Nursing calculators and interactive tools
- NCLEX and nursing education resources
- Continuing education and license-renewal information
- Nursing school and program information
- Career, salary, and employment content
- News articles
- Images, charts, tables, videos, and social media content
Our Commitment to Accuracy
NurseOnShift aims to ensure that published information is:
- Factually accurate
- Supported by reliable and appropriate sources
- Presented in the correct context
- Clearly written and not misleading
- Updated when important evidence, guidance, regulations, or professional requirements change
- Reviewed by an appropriately qualified healthcare professional when clinical review is required
We do not allow advertisers, affiliate partners, educational institutions, employers, product manufacturers, or other commercial relationships to prevent or influence a necessary correction.
How to Report an Error
Readers, healthcare professionals, institutions, authors, and other interested parties are encouraged to report suspected errors by emailing:
Please include as much of the following information as possible:
- The title and URL of the relevant page
- The specific sentence, claim, table, calculation, image, or section you believe is incorrect
- A brief explanation of the concern
- The correct information, when known
- A link or citation to a reliable supporting source
- Your name and professional credentials, when relevant
You do not need to be a healthcare professional to report a concern. Reports submitted without supporting evidence will still be reviewed, although additional verification may be required.
Please do not include confidential patient information, medical records, identifiable clinical details, or other sensitive personal information in a correction request.
How We Review Correction Requests
Correction reports are reviewed by the NurseOnShift editorial team. Depending on the subject, the review may also involve:
- The original author or editor
- A nurse, pharmacist, physician, or other qualified clinical reviewer
- A subject-matter specialist
- An official nursing board, government department, accrediting organization, university, or professional association
- A technical reviewer for calculators, code, formulas, or interactive tools
- Legal or compliance advice when appropriate
We assess the original content, the evidence available when it was published, current authoritative sources, and the potential effect of the alleged error.
Priority is given to concerns that could affect:
- Patient safety
- Medication doses or administration
- Clinical calculations
- Emergency care
- Diagnostic or treatment information
- Nursing scope of practice
- Licensure or continuing education compliance
- Examination eligibility
- Accreditation or nursing program status
- Financial or career decisions
Content presenting an immediate or credible safety risk may be temporarily removed, restricted, or marked as under review while the investigation is completed.
Response Time
We aim to acknowledge correction reports within five business days.
Straightforward errors may be corrected sooner. Complex clinical, legal, regulatory, accreditation, or technical questions may require additional time because they must be verified with appropriate primary or official sources.
A report does not automatically result in a correction. We will make a change when the available evidence indicates that the published content is incorrect, incomplete, outdated in a materially misleading way, or insufficiently clear.
Types of Changes
Minor Corrections
Minor corrections include:
- Spelling or grammatical errors
- Formatting problems
- Broken links
- Minor wording improvements
- Typographical errors that do not change the meaning
- Accessibility or display issues
These issues may be corrected without adding a formal correction notice.
A typographical error involving a medication dose, unit, laboratory value, formula, clinical threshold, date, or other safety-relevant information will not be treated as minor.
Substantive Corrections
A substantive correction is made when an error affects the meaning, accuracy, interpretation, or practical use of the content.
Examples include:
- An incorrect medication dose or administration instruction
- An inaccurate clinical threshold or formula
- A misrepresented study result
- Incorrect nursing license or continuing education requirements
- Inaccurate accreditation or nursing program information
- A materially incorrect statistic, date, quotation, or attribution
- An error in an interactive calculator
- A misleading description of a regulation or professional standard
When a substantive correction is confirmed, we will normally:
- Correct the inaccurate information
- Review related sections for similar errors
- Update the page’s “Last updated” or “Last reviewed” date
- Add a visible correction notice explaining what changed
- Reassess the supporting sources and clinical review when appropriate
A correction notice may use wording such as:
Correction — July 14, 2026: This article previously stated [incorrect information]. It has been corrected to state [correct information]. The change was made after reviewing [type of authoritative source].
The notice will provide enough information for readers to understand the nature of the correction without unnecessarily repeating potentially unsafe misinformation.
Clarifications
A clarification may be added when the original information was not factually incorrect but could reasonably be misunderstood, lacked important context, or did not adequately distinguish between different clinical or professional circumstances.
Clarifications may be identified with a dated editorial note.
Routine Updates
Not every change is a correction.
A routine update occurs when information was accurate when published but has since changed because of:
- New clinical guidance
- New research or safety information
- Changes to laws or regulations
- Updated nursing board requirements
- Changes to accreditation or program availability
- Revised examination policies
- Updated statistics, prices, salaries, or workforce data
- Changes to an external organization’s website
Routine updates will normally be reflected through an updated review date or an “Updated” note rather than a correction notice.
Retractions and Content Removal
NurseOnShift may retract or remove content when:
- Its central claims cannot be supported
- The underlying evidence has been withdrawn or discredited
- The content contains serious or widespread inaccuracies
- Correcting individual sections would not adequately address the problem
- The content creates a significant patient-safety risk
- It infringes intellectual property, privacy, or legal rights
- It was published fraudulently or without appropriate authorization
Where practical, the original URL will display a retraction or removal notice explaining the reason for the action and directing readers to more reliable or current information.
Content will not normally be deleted solely to conceal that an error occurred.
Medical and Clinical Corrections
Medical information requires a particularly careful review because incorrect or unclear information may influence health decisions.
Corrections involving medications, clinical procedures, emergency care, diagnostic criteria, medical calculations, laboratory values, or treatment recommendations should be reviewed by an appropriately qualified healthcare professional whenever reasonably possible.
NurseOnShift content is intended for education and general information. It does not replace professional clinical judgment, institutional policies, local protocols, prescribing information, or advice from a qualified healthcare professional.
In an emergency or when immediate patient safety may be affected, users should follow their local emergency procedures and contact an appropriate healthcare professional rather than waiting for a response from NurseOnShift.
Calculators and Interactive Tools
Reports involving a calculator or interactive tool should include:
- The name and URL of the tool
- The values entered
- The result produced
- The result you expected
- The device and browser used, when relevant
- The source supporting the expected formula or result
When a calculation error is confirmed, we may temporarily disable the tool until it has been corrected and tested.
A correction to a calculator may include a review of its formula, units, input validation, rounding rules, displayed interpretation, source references, and related educational content.
Nursing Schools, Licensing, and Continuing Education
Requirements established by nursing boards, government agencies, accrediting organizations, schools, and examination providers may change without notice.
When correcting this type of information, NurseOnShift gives priority to current information published by the relevant official organization. Third-party directories, search results, social media posts, and automated summaries are not considered sufficient evidence when an authoritative primary source is available.
Readers should always confirm important application, licensing, accreditation, tuition, examination, and continuing education decisions directly with the responsible institution or regulatory body.
News Corrections
For news content, confirmed factual errors will be corrected as soon as reasonably possible.
A material correction will normally be added to the article and will identify:
- What was originally reported incorrectly
- The corrected information
- The date the correction was made
Headlines, social media posts, newsletters, and other promotional material may also be corrected when they contain or repeat the same error.
Social Media Corrections
When incorrect information is published on a NurseOnShift social media account, we may:
- Edit the post when the platform permits it
- Add a corrective comment or follow-up post
- Delete and republish the content with the correct information
- Link to the corrected article or correction notice
Deleting a social media post does not eliminate the need to address a significant clinical or factual error transparently.
Disagreements and Appeals
Reasonable experts may interpret evidence differently. A disagreement with an article does not necessarily mean the article contains a factual error.
When credible authorities disagree, NurseOnShift aims to describe the uncertainty, identify the relevant evidence, and avoid presenting a contested interpretation as settled fact.
A person who disagrees with a correction decision may submit additional evidence to corrections@nurseonshift.com. The matter may be escalated to another editor or qualified reviewer who was not responsible for the original decision.
Changes to This Policy
NurseOnShift may revise this Corrections Policy as its editorial processes, services, or regulatory responsibilities develop.
Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date displayed at the beginning of this page.
Contact Us
To report an error or request a correction, email:
For general questions that do not concern the accuracy of published content, please use our Contact Us page.
Thank you for helping NurseOnShift maintain accurate, useful, and trustworthy nursing and healthcare information.