How Safe Are Your Medication Processes?
When assessing the safety of the medication use process within
your facility or organization, ask yourself the following questions:
"Does your organization…….."
- View patient safety as a "project" or priority instead of part of its mission?
- Have difficulty collecting medication error reports? Measure medication safety by comparing "error
rates"?
- Assign medication errors to a particular group (nurses
or pharmacists) or particular clinical area?
- Continually observe the same medication errors, no
matter what solution is proposed?
- Counsel, educate, or discipline employees when medication
errors occur?
- Struggle with instituting a "non-punitive" culture of safety?
- Have difficulty coordinating medication safety efforts
among disciplines?
- Struggle with trying to control the drug formulary?
- Hear criticism from staff on new products and devices?
- Observe more errors when you introduce technology designed
to improve safety and prevent errors?
- Believe that medication errors rarely occur within the
organization?
- Believe it's done everything possible to improve the
medication use process?
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If you have answered "yes" to any or all
of these questions, then an ISMP consulting
visit will benefit your organization.
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