Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
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Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:

• A Patient Safety Story and Best Practice: Sodium Chloride (4 mEq/mL) Oral Solution
Rachel Albay, PharmD, CPPS
Pharmacy Project Manager I
Medication Safety Kaiser Permanente National Pharmacy Services

• Everyone Loves a Competition
Stacy Carson, PharmD, BCPS, FISMP
Medication Safety Officer
Advent Health

This week’s free ISMP featured article presents results from ISMP and ECRI’s recent survey on drug, supply, and equipment shortages and their effect on patient care and safety: https://www.ismp.org/node/96687

This week’s free ISMP featured article describes a fatal error where digoxin was inadvertently withdrawn from an ADC instead of BUPivacaine and administered intrathecally. Safe practice recommendations are provided: https://www.ismp.org/node/94385/

Don’t miss the opportunity to register for a unique, virtual ISMP Medication Safety Intensive (MSI) workshop designed for those working in community, mail order, and specialty pharmacies. Learn how to identify risks before they cause harm and how to use data for continuous improvement. This program will take place on two consecutive Fridays, October 20 and 27, 2023, from 7:30 am – 4:30 pm ET. For more details about the program: https://www.ismp.org/node/75243

This week’s free ISMP featured article focuses on safety issues with long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotic products, including errors due to transitions of care handoffs, and offers risk reduction strategies: www.ismp.org/node/92051

We need your help to keep ISMP’s nursing newsletter (https://www.ismp.org/newsletters/nursing) a free publication for individual nurses--please email newsletter@ismp.org for information on sponsorship and other ways you can assist.

MSOS members can purchase the ASHP/ISMP Medication Safety Certificate at the ASHP member price of $445 ($545 for non-members) through December 31, 2023: https://www.ismp.org/node/770/

ISMP, in cooperation with The Just Culture Company, will award three scholarships for the next calendar year to a team of 3 individuals from a single organization to participate in a 15-hour Just Culture certification course. Applications for 2024 scholarships are due by September 30, 2023. For details and to apply: https://www.ismp.org/node/30840

Part two of ISMP’s newsletter article series on REMS programs focuses on how to successfully operationalize program requirements throughout the medication-use process, using one health system’s experience as an example: https://www.ismp.org/node/89821/

ISMP has updated its list of drug names that are often confused—the reference includes look-alike and sound-alike name pairs and FDA-approved and ISMP-recommended tall man (mixed case) letters: https://www.ismp.org/recommendations/confused-drug-names-list