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Welcome to the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Nurse Advise-ERR, a free medication safety newsletter designed specifically to meet the needs of nurses who transcribe medication orders, administer medications, and monitor the effects of medications on patients. This monthly, two-page newsletter will be offered free to nurses during 2009 through an educational grant from McKesson Corporation and Baxter Healthcare. Regular features include detailed anonymous accounts of reported errors, checklists of evidence-based error reduction strategies, and short 'safety wires' that offer quick tips regarding safe medication practices. Free CEUs are available in July and January.
Click here for sample issue of the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Nurse Advise-ERR newsletter.
november 2009
In this month's issue:
- Plain D5W or hypotonic saline solutions post-op could result in acute hyponatremia and death in healthy children
- False belief regarding influenza vaccines
- Influenza vaccines mixed-up
- Medication patch slips into wrong ADC pocket
- All is not as it seems…Dose not necessarily missing
Survey:
ISMP Survey on Impact of Economic Crisis on Medication Safety We’re interested in learning how today’s economy is affecting patient safety at your healthcare organization. Please take a few minutes to take our survey and submit your responses to ISMP by October 16, 2009, at www.ismp.org/survey/Survey200909.asp or by fax (215-914-1492) if you don’t have access to the internet. Thank you!
Announcement:
October 18 - October 24, 2009 –National Hospital & Health-System Pharmacy Week.Please join us in acknowledging the invaluable contributions that pharmacists and technicians make to patient care in our nation’s healthcare institutions.
Nurse Advise-ERR® is offered free to US hospital nurses in 2009 through educational grants from McKesson and Baxter Healthcare. We encourage you to designate a primary subscriber in your organization who then redistributes it to as many nurses as possible in your healthcare system.
Back issues of the newsletter are available at: http://www.ismp.org/Newsletters/nursing/backissues.asp.
ISMP Nurse Advise-ERR is distributed monthly via email as an Adobe PDF file . It is our goal to reach as many front-line nurses as possible, and as such would like to email the newsletter to a designated nursing representative in each hospital or health facility. These representatives will be responsible for distributing the newsletter to front-line nurses in their own facility. Suggested distribution methods include combinations of the following: posting on an internal intranet, distribution of reproduced hard copies, posting in critical areas where nurses work, and so on. If you would like to accept responsibility for distribution of ISMP Nurse Advise-ERR at your facility, please click on the link above to register. Individuals are also welcome to subscribe. Thanks for your interest in medication safety!
ATTENTION CANADIAN NURSES: ISMP Canada is pleased to distribute this newsletter to Canadian nurses. Please subscribe via this link: https://www.ismp-canada.org/advise-err.htm.
