TELECONFERENCE

Clinical Pharmacists In The Emergency Department: Building on Interdisciplinary Teamwork to Improve Medication Safety

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW This teleconference will provide you with essential lessons learned from two clinical pharmacists who have successfully designed and implemented a clinical pharmacy program in their respective Emergency Departments (ED). Our guest speakers, who work at different California hospitals, will share how they each created a position for a pharmacist in the ED and implemented the position despite little prior involvement of pharmacists in the ED setting. You will learn how a typical day and week unfolds for the ED pharmacists and the many medication safety initiatives that have resulted from the interdisciplinary collaboration among the medical staff, the nursing staff, and the clinical pharmacists. The speakers will also share how they are addressing the intent of The Joint Commission Medication Management Standard 4.10, Element of Performance 1. This standard requires pharmacists to review medication orders–including those generated in the ED–before dispensing the drugs or before nurses remove them from stock, unless a licensed independent practitioner controls the ordering, preparation, and administration of the medication, or in urgent situations when the resulting delay would harm the patient.

INTENDED AUDIENCE (Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged to attend together):

• ED nurses
• ED physicians
• ED pharmacists
• Clinical pharmacists
• Directors of Pharmacy
• Nurses who manage or direct nursing services in the ED
• Nurse educators
• Nurse executives
• Medical Directors
• Medication Safety and Patient Safety Officers
• Medication Safety Committee members
• Risk and Quality Managers
• Others with interest in improving medication safety in the ED.

OBJECTIVES

Following completion of this teleconference, participants should be able to:

• Identify areas of risk in the ED that can be minimized by establishing clinical pharmacists in the ED
• Describe key factors that help facilitate success when establishing clinical pharmacy services in the ED
• Discuss the role of the clinical pharmacist in monitoring and managing the care of the ED patient
• Provide examples of interdisciplinary medication safety initiatives that can be introduced by clinical pharmacists in the ED
• Describe how including a clinical pharmacist on the ED treatment team can facilitate compliance with The Joint Commission Medication Management Standard 4.10, Element of Performance 1, which requires review of medication orders by a pharmacist.

MODERATOR

• Susan Paparella, RN, MSN, Vice President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA

SPEAKERS

• Jill Hara, PharmD, Emergency Department Clinical Pharmacist, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, CA
• Roshy Aazami, PharmD, Specialty- Emergency Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

PRICING INFORMATION

Live Teleconference	$195.00
Live Teleconference and Teleconference CD	$225.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
Teleconference CD	$195.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
*CD includes a file of the audio recording of the teleconference as well as PowerPoint files containing slides of each presentation.

TELECONFERENCE POLICIES

Registration

• One telephone line connection is allowed per registration. Others may listen on this telephone line via an internal extension, or a speakerphone may be used for larger groups.
• You may not set up conferencing capabilities for other sites outside the facility. Each specific site may be used for larger groups. Each specific site must register individually.
• We cannot accept registrations without an email address and the name of a contact person.
• Registration for this teleconference will end at midnight ET on 11/15/2007.
• CDs will be available for purchase after the teleconference.

Cancellations

• Cancellations must be requested via an email message to our teleconference department.
• Cancellations received before the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference will receive a full refund or credit.
• Cancellations received after the start (1:30 pm ET) of the teleconference and within 3 business days after the teleconference will be assessed a cancellation fee of $50.00.
• If your organization does not cancel within 3 business days after the date of the teleconference and does not participate, the full registration fee will be charged.

Materials

• If your organization's registered participant does not receive the teleconference materials that are sent out approximately 2 days before the teleconference via email, please send an email message to our billing department prior to the start of the teleconference.
  
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Accreditation Information:

NOTE: There is no additional charge for continuing education credits for this teleconference.

Pharmacy Continuing Education Continuing education credits will be provided by The Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group. PPAG is an approved provider of continuing pharmacy education by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). This program has been approved for 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs). The UPN is: 180-999-07-516-L05-P. Nursing Continuing Education Debora Simmons is approved by the California Board of Nurse Examiners as a provider of continuing nursing education. This program has been assigned the Universal Program Number CEP 13677 and is approved for 1 contact hours (0.1 CEUs) of continuing nursing education.