Article on fundraising efforts to support legal defense for nurse mentions an ISMP statement opposing criminal prosecution of healthcare practitioners involved in unintentional medication errors. For the full text, visit The Tennessean online.
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This article appeared on the website of Pulmonology Advisor on February 19, 2019.
ADCs currently are being used for medication distribution in the majority of U.S. hospitals and health systems, and ISMP believes healthcare organizations have an obligation to ensure that this technology is being optimized to promote safe patient outcomes.
In the wake of recent criminal charges being filed against a registered nurse in Tennessee who was involved in a fatal medication error, ISMP is emphasizing that the focus should be on identifying and fixing imperfect systems instead of unjustly blaming the individual healthcare practitioner.