ISMP Highlights for Action: Recent Medication Safety Concerns

December 12, 2023

The participant will learn errors and examples of hazards that have been reported to the ISMP Medication Safety Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP) and published during the 1st half of 2023 and strategies that can be used to identify and reduce the risk of current medication events.

They will also learn how the reporting of unsafe conditions or actual events that could lead to harm that can be used regularly to support improved outcomes as part of a robust medication safety program.

Target Audience

Nursing

Pharmacist

Pharmacy Tech

Learning Objectives

1.    List three error/hazard examples that have been reported to the ISMP Medication Safety Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP) and published during the 1st half of 2023. 
2.    State three strategies that can be used to identify and reduce the risk of current medication events 
3.    Describe how the reporting of unsafe conditions or actual events that could lead to harm that can be used regularly to support improved outcomes as part of a robust medication safety program.
 

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
Course opens: 
12/12/2023
Course expires: 
01/26/2024
Event starts: 
12/12/2023 - 1:00pm CST
Event ends: 
12/12/2023 - 2:00pm CST
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Live Activity
United States

Absence of Relevant Financial Relationships

Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 

An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

 

No one in a position to control the content of this educational activity have relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

 

Faculty

Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP,

Director, Education

Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)

 

Gretchen L Brummel, PharmD, BCPS

Pharmacy Executive Director

Vizient, Inc. 

 

Planning committee

Gretchen L Brummel, PharmD, BCPS

Pharmacy Executive Director

Vizient, Inc. 

 

Diana Scott, MHA, RN, CPHQ

Principal, Accreditation/regulatory advisory services

Vizient, Inc.

In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Designation Statement(s):

Nurses (CNE)

Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of  1.00 ANCC contacts hours.

PHARMACY

Vizient, Inc. designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 ACPE credit hours.

Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-23-352-L05-P
Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-23-352-L05-T

OTHER

Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation indicating the maximum credits available.

Many state licensing boards and credentialing bodies accept certificates of participation from accredited CE activities to meet CE requirements for license renewals and re-certification. It is the responsibility of the participant to contact their state licensing board and/or certifying body for verification on credit eligibility reciprocity.

 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
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