Nurse colleagues: an evidence-based checklist for IV push best practices is now available! The checklist is based on ISMP guidelines and INS standards, and can be used as a teaching tool to help standardize practice and assess competency: https://qsen.org/iv-push-evidence-based-practice-checklist/

Thank you again to the many hospitals and ambulatory facilities that have already submitted their findings for the ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment®️ for Perioperative Settings! We know that this has been a particularly challenging time for healthcare practitioners continuing to deal with COVID-19 and many other resource-intensive issues.

If your facility has not yet submitted its findings and would still like to participate in this valuable endeavor, there are only 2 more weeks left! Be sure to submit by the February 11 deadline in order to receive your facility’s weighted scores and to gain access to national aggregate results which can be used to compare your facility to demographically similar organizations. This will be the final submission deadline; ISMP is not able to offer any additional deadline extensions.

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, January 27, 2022 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.

Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yXOM9MJGTCuZj_XasIjAAg

Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:

• Safeguards Around Adult Use of Continuously Inhaled Epoprostenol
Sammy Burton, PharmD, FISMP
Cleveland Clinic

• Utilizing the EMR to Assure Safe Paralytic Infusion Practices
Mara Weber, PharmD
OhioHealth

• Multi-Chamber Bag Parenteral Nutrition
Andrew Mays, PharmD
ASPEN PN Safety Committee

• ISMP Update
Michael R. Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD (hon.), DPS (hon.), FASHP, President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices

ISMP has identified possible safety issues with Paxlovid, which was recently authorized for the treatment of COVID-19. Tablets need to be removed from the blister pack for patients with moderate renal impairment. For a copy of ISMP’s special alert with safe practice recommendations, visit: https://www.ismp.org/node/29033

Surgery sites now have more time to participate in the ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment for Perioperative Settings! The data submission deadline has been extended to February 11, 2022. Don’t miss this opportunity to evaluate your medication use systems, identify challenges, and document regulatory compliance. Visit www.ismp.org/node/18027 to access the assessment workbook.

ISMP is receiving a steady stream of error reports on age-related mix-ups with the COVID vaccine. A National Alert (NAN) warning has been issued with safe practice recommendations: https://www.ismp.org/node/28619

ISMP is receiving reports of confusion and errors with monoclonal antibody products used to treat COVID-19, due to unfamiliar co-packaging and labeling. Read this week’s ISMP newsletter featured article for safe practice recommendations: https://www.ismp.org/node/28457

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, November 18, 2021 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.

Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_266jVUPfTeOaOXignK2AVA

Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:

• Human Factors Engineering of Heparin Nurse Managed Protocol
Mark Wolf Jr., PharmD
PGY2 Medication-Use Safety and Policy Pharmacy Resident
University of Kentucky HealthCare

• Medication Events Related to Cancelled Labs
Magdalena Mastalerz, PharmD
PGY2 Health-Systems Pharmacy Administration & Leadership Resident
University of Kentucky HealthCare

With the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine for young children, ISMP is warning about the possibility of mix-ups between the pediatric formulation and the one intended for age 12 and over, since both will be available at many vaccination sites. For error prevention recommendations: https://www.ismp.org/node/28368

Disrespectful, bullying, and demeaning behavior is a silent epidemic in healthcare—take our survey to help ISMP measure what progress we have made! Deadline for participation is November 19, 2021: https://surveys.ismp.org/s3/ISMP-Survey-on-Disrespectful-Behavior-in-Hea...