At the start of each year, ISMP has often encouraged organizations to select and follow a New Year’s resolution related to medication safety. This year we, too, have made a New Year’s resolution: To highlight for our readers key information about selected high-alert medications and how to reduce...
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These resources are developed from ISMP's review of reports through its national error reporting programs, peer-reviewed articles in its publications, and/or consensus gathering summits on topics pertinent to specific errors or hazards. ISMP offers a wide range of downloadable and easy to use resources. Many are free.
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Michael R. Cohen's comprehensive, authoritative examination of the causes of and means to preventing medication errors.
In our August 24, 2006 newsletter, we shared the tragic story of a 16-year-old woman who died during labor due to accidental IV administration of a bag of epidural analgesia instead of penicillin. According to news reports, the nurse who was caring for the patient no longer works at the hospital...
More than 1,400 healthcare providers responded to our April/May 2006 survey on medication reconciliation, primarily nurses (75%) and pharmacists (21%) from hospitals (89%) and outpatient settings (6%). Most respondents (91%) were familiar with the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG)...
As we began our Thanksgiving holiday last year, we had just learned that a 69-year-old woman had died due to a medication error that was caused in large part by an easily remedied safety problem-mistaken identity of products in unlabeled basins during a sterile procedure (ISMP Medication Safety...
This pocket-sized handy reference has important reference information every nurse and nursing student should carry along with them into the clinical setting.
Formally identify specific medication safety strategic initiatives.