MSOS News

ISMP survey on 2016-2017 TMSBP
Post date: 2 weeks 5 days ago

ISMP is conducting a brief survey to determine the current level of implementation of the ISMP 2016-2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices (TMSBP) for Hospitals. We are particularly interested in learning about any barriers to implementation that you may have encountered so we can better support the widespread adoption of these best practices. We’d appreciate your participation in the survey regardless of whether you have or have not implemented any or all of the practices. The survey can be found at: www.ismp.org/sc?id=2927. Please submit your responses online by July 21, 2017.

Texting of orders survey – Your input needed.
Post date: 3 weeks 4 days ago

In order to learn more about the problem and scope of texting orders in healthcare and more about the issues from those who are most affected by them, we encourage all MSOS members to participate in a 15-minute survey (www.ismp.org/sc?id=2942) before August 31, 2017. ISMP really needs your input to help guide their work on this topic, and they are sincerely interested in your opinions!

MSOS Member Meeting Follow-up
Post date: 3 weeks 5 days ago

At the recently held MSOS Member Meeting during the ASHP Medication Safety Collaborative in Minneapolis on June 4, 2017, a member shared an occurrence that happened in their facility.  The member believed that a defect in BD’s (Pyxis) MedStation ES software resulted in the misinterpretation of an order frequency intended to be every Monday, Wednesday and Friday as every day that was associated with a patient incident. David Swenson, Vice President, Clinical Strategy, Medical Affairs, Medication Management Systems at BD attended that meeting and publicly volunteered to investigate the report. David shared his investigation For the full message with an excerpt of his findings, please click on the title above.

Resource updating
Post date: 1 month 6 days ago

MSOS currently has a list of list of Resource Links for Medication Safety Officers under the Resources tab of our website (http://www.medsafetyofficer.org/content/resources). This list was developed to help new medication safety officers identify resources that they can utilize in their new position.  Knowing how rapidly things change, we would appreciate your feedback! Let us know if any new links should be added or deleted. Please email your suggestions to Darryl Rich at drich@ismp.org by no later than July 15, 2017. Thank you.

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The mission of the Medication Safety Officers Society (MSOS) is to advance and encourage excellence in safe medication use by providing communication, leadership, direction, and education among its members.