TELECONFERENCE

Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Medication Safety Team
Part I: Creating an Optimal Infrastructure and Strategic Plan

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW Everyone has a medication safety team - but is yours functioning at its fullest potential? Join us for Part I of ISMP's 2-part teleconference series entitled Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Medication Safety Team. In Part I of this series, Creating an Optimal Infrastructure and Strategic Plan, on Wednesday September 17, 2008 from 1:30 - 3:00 pm ET, the speakers will discuss the operational challenges faced by many teams across the country and address the importance of a defined safety infrastructure and shared accountability model necessary for developing a successful team.

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

• This program is an ideal forum for pharmacists, nurses, medical staff, and leadership in large and small organizations looking to create a medication safety team, or enhance the work of their current team.

OBJECTIVES

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

• List the key components, characteristics, and practitioner types often associated with a successful medication safety team
• Recognize the role of a culture of “shared accountability” in the development and functionality of a medication safety team
• Identify the role of the medication safety team in developing a medication safety strategic plan for the organization Describe the communication mechanisms used to disseminate safety information from the committee

MODERATOR

• Allen J. Vaida, PharmD, FASHP, Executive Vice President, ISMP, Horsham, PA

SPEAKERS

• Scott M. Mark, PharmD, MS, MEd, FASHP, FACHE, Director of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of Pharmacy Systems, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA

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 9/16/2008.
• 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.
  
• When registering, please be sure to provide the email address of the person to whom ISMP should send these materials.

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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: 180-999-08-512-L04-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.