ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices
Speaker
Rita K. Jew, PharmD, MBA, BCPPS, FASHP
Dr Jew is President at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), a nonprofit organization devoted entirely to preventing medication errors. Prior to ISMP, Dr. Jew spent over 25 years in the acute care setting as a neonatal/pediatric specialist and held various leadership positions including Director of Pharmacy at UCSF Health, Executive Director of Pharmacy & Clinical Nutrition Services at CHOC Children’s and Clinical Manager at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She received her PharmD from University of California at San Francisco and MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and completed an ASHP-Accredited Residency in Clinical Pharmacy at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She is a Board-Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS).
Description
Learning from errors that have occurred in professional practice and using that information to identify potential risk points is an important way to prevent similar errors. The purpose of the ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices is to identify, inspire, and mobilize widespread adoption of consensus-based Best Practices for specific medication safety issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors in patients, despite repeated warnings in ISMP publications. During this program, we will review the new best practices from the ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals. We will discuss medication errors that the new best practices are designed to prevent, as well as recommended strategies for each best practice.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the webinar, the participant should be able to:
1. List the new best practices from the ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals.
2. Describe the medication errors that these new best practices were designed to prevent.
3. Describe recommended strategies related to the ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number 12205 for 1 contact hours.
This meeting has been submitted for approval for 1 contact hour of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal.