Each year, ISMP celebrates individuals, healthcare organizations, and group collaboratives that have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to medication safety through innovative projects, programs, educational efforts, standard setting, or research. Nominations for this year's awards will be accepted through September 6, 2019. Safety leaders from all healthcare disciplines and practice areas are encouraged to submit--outside and self-nominations are accepted. For more information, visit: https://www.ismp.org/cheers-submit-nomination

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, July 25, 2019 from 1:00-2:00 PM EST.
Register Now: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1278479534990869259

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

• Avoiding Errors When Using Insulin Vials
Allison Pollock, PharmD, BCPS, FCSHP, Medication Safety Specialist
University of California San Francisco

• Discharge Prescription "Test Claims"- Mitigating Potential for Harm
Meghan D. Swarthout, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, Division Director, Ambulatory and Care Transitions
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

• Insulin Safety: Extending System Wide Efforts to Critical Access Hospitals
Natalie Gardner, PharmD, Advisor, Clinical Pharmacy Services
OhioHealth

ISMP is conducting a brief survey to get a general sense of the current level of implementation of the 2018-2019 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals. We are also interested in knowing about any barriers to implementation.

We would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey regardless of whether you have or have not implemented any or all of the best practices.

Follow this link to survey: https://surveys.ismp.org/s3/Targeted-Medication-Safety-Best-Practices-fo...
Survey ends July 19, 2019.

Thank you for your dedication and work to improve safe medication use!

Don’t miss the chance to attend a workshop that could change your professional life! Register now for the next ISMP Medication Safety Intensive (MSI) Workshop, September 12-13 in Orlando, FL, and network with colleagues as you learn unique ISMP safety principles and techniques that can help you maximize your error prevention efforts. Whether you are new to the field or just want to re-energize your current medication safety program, our experts will help you see your organization through a new perspective and get hands-on practice in selecting high leverage strategies to address current safety issues. Workshops sell out quickly—for more information or save your place, visit: www.ismp.org/node/127

Thank you to Kenneth Maxik and the CompleteRx team for sponsoring the MSOS Networking Session on Monday at the Hilton Hotel!
We can't wait to see everyone again next year!

Join ISMP speakers on June 20th as they describe key vulnerabilities with neuromuscular blockers that have led to patient harm, and the best practices for safeguarding these high-alert medications.
For details and registration on this free webinar, visit: www.ismp.org/node/1523.

Will you be at the Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists Annual Meeting in Orlando in August? If so, register now for a free ISMP breakfast seminar on Improving Intravenous Drug Delivery Safety. Program speakers will discuss the primary safety issues, at-risk behaviors, and ISMP guidelines and best practices associated with intravenous drug therapy. They also will discuss findings from the Consensus Development Conference on the Safety of IV Drug Delivery Systems. Seats go fast! For more information or to register, visit: https://www.ismp.org/events/fshp-improving-intravenous-drug-delivery-safety

If you missed ISMP’s latest webinar on safe administration of IV push medications, you can now access it on demand. The webinar helps practitioners identify and manage risks and design reliable practices for IV push medication use. For more information or to view the webinar, visit: https://www.ismp.org/node/1377

Greetings MSOS members!

For those of you attending the ASHP Summer Meeting in Boston, MA please join us for our Member Meeting being held 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 9 in Room 306, Level 3 at the Hynes Convention Center.

The MSOS Member Meeting will immediately follow the session “ISMP Update: Looking Over the Opioid Horizon: Risks, Regulations, and Possibilities”. More details: www.ismp.org/ASHPsummer2019

Please also join us for a membership get-together at the Hilton Boston Back Bay (40 Dalton Street) on Monday, June 10th from 5:30 – 6:30 pm.

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 from 1:00-2:00 PM EST.

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

• A Campus Medication Safety Committee
Dan Sheridan, MS, RPh, Medication Safety Pharmacist
and
Jessica Thorburn, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident
OhioHealth Marion Hospital & Hardin Memorial Hospital

• Pediatric Smart Pump Alert Reduction Project
Randi Trope, DO, MBS
Cohen Children's Northwell Health

• Development of a NICU Emergency Medications Calculator
Joanie Cook, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Coordinator
Saint Francis Medical Center

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