TELECONFERENCE

Pediatric Medication Safety: High-Leverage Strategies
for a High-Risk Patient Population

Registration for the teleconference has expired.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW ISMP coined the term “high-alert medication” over ten years ago as a way to help focus safety strategies around those medications most likely to cause harm. This teleconference will focus on medication safety strategies around a “high-alert” patient population most likely to have harm. Pediatric patients have a higher risk for error and need specific consideration in our medication systems. An emphasis will be placed on high-leverage concepts. Topics will include patient-specific doses and where to initiate efforts, a new pediatric barcode adaptation, pediatric compounding, alert fatigue, formulary issues, standardized doses, resuscitation cards, and IV room automation.

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

• Physicians
• Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Risk and Quality Managers
• Medication Safety and Patient Safety Officers

OBJECTIVES

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

• Identify reasons why pediatric patients are at high risk for medication errors
• Describe how patient-specific dosing can reduce the most common harm associated with pediatric patients
• List the medications that have the most risk for the pediatric population
• Discuss bar-coding challenges and adaptation in pediatrics.
• Identify strategies to decrease the risk related to pediatric medication use

MODERATOR

• Stuart Levine, PharmD, Informatics Specialist, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

SPEAKERS

• Jared Cash, BS, PharmD, Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT

PRICING INFORMATION

Live Teleconference	$215.00
Live Teleconference and Teleconference CD	$245.00 (Plus $5.00 S&H)
Teleconference CD	$215.00 (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 5/17/2009.
• 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: 180-999-09-504-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.