PRESENTATIONS & Lectures

ISMP speakers travel extensively throughout the US and internationally to speak about medication safety and adverse drug event prevention. Sponsoring organizations have included professional societies, hospitals, professional liability firms, risk management companies, and medical, nursing and pharmacy schools.

Some of the many topics on which ISMP experts are available to speak include:

• System-based causes of medication errors
• Role of human factors in medication errors
• Failure mode and effects analysis and root cause analysis
• Medication error detection and reporting
• High-alert medications and high-risk processes
• Educating patients about medication error prevention
• Computerized prescriber order entry
• Patient-controlled analgesia
• Bedside bar-coding technology
• Intimidation in the workplace
• Building a culture of safety
• Measuring medication safety
• Preventing errors with look-alike and sound-alike drug names
• Preventing medication errors in critical access hospitals
• Preventing errors with high-risk patient populations (oncology or pediatrics) 
• 2004 ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment ^® (comparison with 2000 data)
• JC Medication Management Standards and National Patient Safety Goals

Please complete our Presentation request form to receive more information or to arrange for a presentation at your organization or healthcare setting.