This month's main topic: Part I: Survey Results Show Unsafe Practices Persist with IV Push Medications
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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This week's featured article: Part II: Survey Results Suggest Action is Needed to Improve Safety with Adult IV Push Medications
This issue's main topic: Errors due to the Presentation of Results on Accu-Chek Inform II and Possibly Other Glucometers
Suggestions for developing policies, procedures, and associated documents that meet the dual goals of allowing patients the flexibility to continue using their insulin pump during hospitalization while ensuring their safety.
This free tool helps consumers understand how errors happen and the steps necessary to keep them safe while taking these medications.
This program is an ASHP eLearning activity developed in partnership with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
These guidelines provide consensus-based best practices for safety issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors in patients.
Use this list to determine which medications require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
These guidelines address at-risk behaviors and unsafe practices associated with subcutaneous insulin use in the inpatient setting and during transitions of care.
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