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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 2008 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.

july 2008

• Picture-perfect scanned and faxed orders eliminate confusion
• Telephone orders: How do you know the caller is for real?
• Refrigerator monitoring—temperature fluctuations led to waste of vaccines
• All is not as it seems—mix-ups when using greater than and less than symbols.

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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.