TELECONFERENCE

Risk Reduction Strategies for Medication Errors in the Perioperative Setting

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This teleconference will focus on medication and patient safety in the perioperative setting and will help organizations meet two of the 2006 JCAHO Patient Safety Goals. First, to improve the safety of medication use with the requirement of labeling all medications and medication containers on and off the sterile field in perioperative and other procedural settings; and second, to improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers including the requirement of a standardized approach to “hand off” communication. Information provided by the expert speakers will lay the foundation for how to achieve a genuine culture of safety in the perioperative setting.

Our teleconference, "Risk Reduction Strategies for Medication Errors in the Perioperative Setting," will be held on Wednesday September 21st at 1:30 pm EDT. The 90-minute program will be moderated by Matthew Fricker, MS, RPh, Program Director, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA. Mr. Fricker will provide an overview of hazardous conditions observed by ISMP in the perioperative and procedural settings along with best practices to avoid patient harm from medications.

Additional speakers will be Sharon J. Giarrizzo-Wilson, RN, BSN/MS, CNOR, a clinical nurse specialist from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and Beverley Orser, MD, FRCPC, PhD, an anesthesiologist from ISMP-Canada.

Ms. Giarrizzo-Wilson will discuss communication (including verbal orders) and hand offs through the pre-, intra-, and post-operative environments. She will also expand upon safe labeling practices as well as present highlights from the AORN Safe Medication Tool Kit. Dr. Orser will focus on drug errors associated with anesthesia care. All speakers will present practical strategies that can be proactively used by individual practitioners and clinical departments.

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

OBJECTIVES

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

Recognize the range and scope of the perioperative medication error problem
Understand the responsibilities of both the practitioners and the organization in providing the safest delivery of medications to the perioperative patient
Identify high leverage medication-use safety strategies that can reduce the incidence of error and enhance patient safety

MODERATOR

Matthew Fricker, MS, RPh, Program Director, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, PA

SPEAKERS

Sharon J. Giarrizzo-Wilson, RN, BSN/MS, CNOR, Perioperative Nursing Specialist, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, Center for Nursing Practice, Denver, CO
Beverley Orser, MD, FRCPC, PhD, Institute for Safe Medication Practices-Canada, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PRICING INFORMATION

Live Teleconference	$0.00
Live Teleconference and Teleconference CD	$0.00 (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 9/20/2005.
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.

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: .

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.