Two-day intensive workshop in a virtual format.
Acute Care Providers
As an inpatient healthcare provider, you may find it challenging to keep your patients safe from the risk of medication errors.
Whether you are an administrator in the C-Suite or a front-line practitioner, ISMP has resources that will help guide you to identify risk and implement strategies to improve safe medication use. The offerings linked on this page feature ISMP services, programs, and publications for error prevention and risk reduction, including consulting services that can help provide solutions to your safety challenges and expand your knowledge base.
These resources are built on years of analysis of thousands of real-life error reports by ISMP’s experienced staff, as well as direct visits to hundreds of practices sites.
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Developed to support hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and other procedural locations in addressing identified national gaps in perioperative and procedural medication safety.
Identify best practices to support safe use of technology and automation in sterile compounding.
Consensus-based best practices for issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors.
Developed in 2020 to help healthcare facilities standardize smart infusion pump technology.
Standard best practices and processes directly associated with ADC design and functionality.
Strategies to safely present drug information in various electronic formats.
Suggestions for developing policies, procedures, and associated documents.
Helps consumers understand how errors happen and the steps necessary to keep them safe.
This program is an ASHP eLearning activity developed in partnership with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
Medications requiring special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
This list includes abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations that have been frequently misinterpreted and involved in harmful or potentially harmful medication errors.
Address at-risk behaviors and unsafe practices in the inpatient setting and during transitions of care.
Also known as the Look-alike and sound-alike (LASA) list.
Experts
Medication Safety Specialist, Publications
Director, Education
Director, Consulting
Director, Membership & PSO
Vice President, Services