This month's main topic: Students Have a Key Role in a Culture of Safety: Analysis of Student-Associated Medication Incidents
ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
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Providing a valuable resource specifically for nurses to reduce medication error risk in any healthcare setting
*Nurse AdviseERR® is currently offered FREE thanks to support from Fresenius Kabi and Ivenix.
The ISMP Medication Safety Alert!® Nurse AdviseERR is a digital newsletter, published monthly. It is specifically designed to meet the unique medication safety and education needs of nurses who transcribe orders, administer medications, and monitor the effect of medications on patients.
Nurses in the following settings read this newsletter:
- Acute care hospitals
- Behavioral health facilities
- Community health clinics
- Surgical centers
- Birthing centers
- Faculty at academic settings to share with student nurses
*Nurse AdviseERR® is currently offered free to nurses thanks to support from Fresenius Kabi and Ivenix.
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Online access to twelve (12) issues per year. You will receive a reminder notice via email to renew your annual subscription before your subscription expires. Your subscription will not automatically renew.
Single issues are available for purchase.
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Volume 16, Issue 8
This month's main topic: Smart Pump Custom Concentrations without Hard “Low Concentration” Alerts Can Lead to Patient Harm
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Volume 16, Issue 7
This month's main topic: Ongoing Confusion with Different Products that Use the Ellipta Inhaler Device
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Volume 16, Issue 6
This month's main topic: Don't Confuse the IV and Subcutaneous Forms of RiTUXimab
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Volume 16, Issue 5
This month's main topic: Safety with Nebulized Medications Requires an Interdisciplinary Team Approach
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Volume 16, Issue 4
This month's main topic: Surgical Fires Caused by Skin Preps and Ointments: Rare but Dangerous and Preventable
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Volume 16, Issue 3
This month's main topic: Medication Errors during Insulin Administration for Patients with Hyperkalemia
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Volume 16, Issue 2
This month's main topic: Unreadable Barcodes and Multiple Barcodes on Packages Can Lead to Errors
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Volume 16, Issue 1
This month's main topic: Electronic Health Record (EHR)-Smart Pump Interoperability Resulted in Electronic Documentation of Different Flow Rates
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Volume 15, Issue 12
This month's main topic: ISMP Survey Shows Provider Text Messaging Often Runs Afoul of Patient Safety
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Volume 16, Issue 11
This month's main topic: Alarming Survey Results from CDC: Unsafe Injection Practices Continue
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Volume 15, Issue 10
This month's main topic: ISMP Launches the First High-Alert Medication Safety Self Assessment for Inpatient and Outpatient Facilities
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Volume 15, Issue 9
This month's main topic: Unrealized Exposure to Heparin Leads to Missed HIT Diagnosis and Subsequent Limb Thrombosis
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Volume 15, Issue 8
This month's main topic: Problems Associated With the Use of U-500 Insulin Syringes
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Volume 15, Issue 7
This month's main topic: The Texting Debate: Beneficial Means of Communication or Safety and Security Risk?
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Volume 15, Issue 6
This month's main topic: Despite Technology, Verbal Orders Persist, Read Back is Not Widespread, and Errors Continue
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Volume 15, Issue 5
This month's main topic: Two Unsafe Practices: Administration of a Product With a Precipitate and Reuse of a Saline Flush Syringe
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Volume 15, Issue 4
This month's main topic: What's in a Generic Name? Clues About the Drug's Use and Possible Adverse Effects