September 2005 ISMP Nurse Advise-ERR Newsletter
From
September 2005 issue of
Nurse Advise-ERR, a peer-reviewed newsletter published by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).
In this month's issue:
Here's what you'll find in the
September 2005 issue ...
--Cultural diversity and medication safety
--All is not as it seems: Protonix or protamine?
--Educational materials resource for your Asian-language speaking patients
--Enteral feeding drug-nutrient interactions
Special Announcements: Teleconference. Our teleconference, "
Risk Reduction Strategies for Medication Errors in the Perioperative Setting," will be held on
Wednesday September 21st at 1:30 pm EDT. Speakers from ISMP, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and ISMP-Canada will focus on medication and patient safety in the perioperative setting and will help organizations meet the 2006 JCAHO Patient Safety Goal requiring the labeling of all medications and medication containers on and off the sterile field in perioperative and other procedural settings. Information provided by the expert speakers will lay the foundation for how to achieve a genuine culture of safety in the perioperative setting. All speakers will present practical strategies that can be proactively used by individual practitioners and clinical departments. More information and registration at:
http://www.ismp.org/T/200509/index.htm.
New ISMP Tool online! Please visit our website
www.ismp.org for access to our newest tool,
ISMP’s List of Confused Drug Names. Please note that we also have updated and reformatted two of our existing tools:
ISMP’s List of High-Alert Medications, and
ISMP’s List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations.
Nurse Advise-ERR is offered free to nurses through an educational grant from
McKesson. We encourage you to designate a primary subscriber in your organization who then redistributes it to as many nurses as possible in your healthcare system.
Back issues of the newsletter are available at:
http://www.ismp.org/NursingArticles/list.htm.
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