This week’s featured newsletter article is the first in a two-part series on ensuring competency and safety when training newly hired professional staff: https://www.ismp.org/node/73770
MSOS News
ISMP has launched the 2023-2024 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Community Pharmacy, which are the first set of guidance of its kind! Help us spread the word and inspire greater action on these important safety issues: www.ismp.org/node/65345
Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kuByH0aqRk2vcgNHFQiU8w
Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:
• Near Miss Reporting Leads to a Positive Change
Shannon Manzi, PharmD, BCPPS, FPPA
Director, Safety & Quality, Department of Pharmacy
Faculty, Applied Informatics, Computational Health Informatics Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Boston Children’s Hospital
• Making Smarter Alerts for “Smart” Infusion Pumps
Stephen Andrews, PharmD, BCPS, CPPS
Drug Information Specialist
University of Utah Health
This week’s featured newsletter article is the first in a two-part series on how controlled substance drug diversion is a threat to patient safety, and ways to implement a proactive approach to prevention: https://www.ismp.org/node/64547
Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, January 26, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Loxe9LQVSXqXesV-X9yfGA
Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:
• Baclofen accumulation in acute kidney injury
Jacqueline Hartford, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Medication Safety Officer, Sinai Hospital-Grace Medical Center-Northwest Hospital- Levindale, Lifebridge Health
•Updating the look- and sound-alike institutional list
Mona Hammam, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FISMP, Medication Safety Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
•Closing the loop: Standardizing medication event feedback
Heather Ellis, PharmD, Medication Safety Coordinator, AdventHealth