TELECONFERENCE

Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Medication Safety Team
Part II: Meeting the Challenges of Implementation and Communication

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW Everyone has a medication safety team - but is yours functioning at its fullest potential? Join us for Part II of ISMP's 2-part teleconference series entitled Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Medication Safety Team on Thursday October 23, 2008 from 1:30 - 3:00 pm ET. In Part II, Meeting the Challenges of Implementation and Communication, the speakers will focus on the established work of the team including the use of data and external information in creating change, discuss the role of a physician leader on the team, and describe the challenges faced in advancing, disseminating, and sustaining medication safety initiatives within their own organizations. They will also discuss the importance of presenting actionable information to senior leadership regarding safety initiatives, and the methodology used in their locations.

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:

• Identify the challenges faced by the medication safety team in advancing safety throughout the organization
• List the strategies that can be used by the team to identify organizational risk and the rollout of an implementation plan within the organization
• Discuss the role of the physician leader in team effectiveness
• Describe the types of successful initiatives undertaken by hospitals and health systems in the US

MODERATOR

• Russell Jenkins, MD, Medical Director, ISMP, Horsham, PA

SPEAKERS

• William Barron, MD, FACP, MMM, Vice President, Quality and Safety and Chief Quality Officer, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
• Sharon K. Steingass, RN, MSN, Vice President for Ambulatory Care Service, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, 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 10/22/2008.
• 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: 180-999-08-513-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.