I appreciate the responses for the reporting structure. In addition, I wonder what resources you have devoted to medication safety/quality under that reporting structure. We struggle with ownership but now authority. Additionally, struggle with prioritization among the many other quality and financial projects that are ongoing. Can you describe how you resource projects and maintain accountability?

Thanks

Dear all:

In our hospital we are planning to conduct the ISMP self assessment this year, we were not able to conduct it earlier at 2011.

Do you have any idea if this could be possible now, and we can still submit the data to the ISMP, knowing that the last assessment module was released in 2011.

Appreciate your feedback

Thank you

Salma

I have been asked to develop a Medication Safety rotation for our new residency program.  I have been asked to design a 4 week rotation.  Does anyone have any experience in a Medication Safety rotation that is not longitudinal?  I am finding it difficult to design a 4 week rotation.  Would you be willing to share your rotations goals and activities?

Please contact me offline if you prefer at laura.herbrechtsmeier@wfhc.org.

Thanks!

Laura

Hello

Is anyone doing any work with the ISMP Best Practice #3, measuring and expressing patient weights in metric units only????

Thanks

How do you handle contrast dispensing? Does pharmacy dispense? Does radiology use bulk bottles? Do you apply the 28 day expiration date or 'immediate use' since ouside a hood?

Can anyone share where they are physically disponsing of their controlled substance waste - sink, trash can, sharps container, Cactus sink, other?

Thank you!

For the medication safety officers, whom do you report to in your organization?

Pharmacy Operations manager or director?

Pharmacy clinical manager or director?

Pharmacy Department director?

A Quality/Patient Safety dept outside of Pharmacy?

thank you!

susan

Like many institutions we have moved to ideal and adjusted-body weight for our IVIG dosing. However, we are running into a new issue with the weight nurses should program into the infusion pump (we use Alaris) to calculate the infusion rate.

Good Afternoon,

  I am wondering if anyone is willing to share how you store/dispense epinephrine used topically for circumcisions? If you dispense a vial or amp how do you clearly identify that the product is to be used topically to avoid an accidental injection?

thank you,

Heather

We have been discussing some errors and we have had a discussion on what entails "life-sustaining measures." Some of these are obvious (CPR, intubation, surgical procedure, defibrillation and are clearly defined by NCC MERP Index) however, we are struggling with the not so obvious. How would you classify the following interventions (life saving or not):?

1. CPAP/BiPAP use

2. Vasoactive medication use (i.e. norepinephrine)