This month, I chose to complete the recertification module that dealt with medication safety issues. This section focused on many different topics, including classifying errors and discussing the changing of cultures to ensure safe environments for our patients. Medication safety is definitely a very important topic
Greetings from Iowa, Many of you probably read in the ASHP Newslinks about a teenager in Iowa that died from an accidental, self-administered dose of methadone. He took the medication from a family member's medicine cabinet and shared it with his friends
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) is dedicated to building relationships within the health care community that strengthen medication and patient safety through interprofessional care. We are excited to have the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) participation this year in our Medication Safety Collaborative
My name is Trang Truong and I am a Post-doctoral Medication Safety Resident with Purdue University College of Pharmacy’s Center for Medication Safety Advancement. I am conducting a research survey to assess the need for medication safety education and training for physicians, pharmacists, and nurses across different healthcare settings
Last week I had the opportunity to participate in an IV Safety Safety Summit outside of Philadelphia
Last Thursday, one of the Pulmonary Attendings and the Internal Medicine (IM) Chiefs approached our Medication Safety Coordinator about speaking at the monthly IM Patient Safety Conference. They were hoping to provide a multidisciplinary discussion related to the discharge process, with a focus specifically on medication safety. Our Medication Safety Coordinator was asked to provide an example of a Patient Safety Net (PSN) submission related to medication discharge errors and, possibly, led to a bad outcome
Video Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301- 18563 162-57402912/multiple- medications-growing- polypharmacy-problem/?...In the last 10 years, the percentage of people over 60 who take five or more medications has jumped from 22 percent to 37 percent
Close inspection of the CDC report shows that the problem in one case was a matter of the clinic staff repackaging sterile medications for later use (all the infections came from a vial prepared in the morning for use in the afternoon) and another where the user preparing the injections had nasal colonization of the offending strain of S aureus
Subject: AAEECE Worldwide Patient Safety Initiative (WPSI) ) to Address Look-Alike Sound-Alike (LASA) Eye and Ear Related Medication Errors : Medication Errors/Incidents SURVEY Involving LASA Eye and Ear Medications *MORE OUTCOME DATA RE: MED ERRORS NEEDED* UPDATED 4/26/12 See responses below : Dear Friends, Colleagues and Supporting Organizations, Please assist the AAEECE Worldwide Patient Safety Initiative (WPSI) to Address Look-Alike Sound-Alike (LASA) Eye and Ear Related Medication Errors by completing our new short survey that will allow us to collect data on LASA medication errors directly from our supporting members which include healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians, etc.) and patients. Just click on the following link which will bring you directly to our survey titled “AAEECE WPSI Survey: Medication Errors/Incidents Involving LASA Eye and Ear Medications” located on Surveymonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7FVF5T7
My question concerns medication barcode scanning