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ISMP Announces Three Additions to 2024-2025 Targeted …

Healthcare organizations deciding on where to focus their medication safety efforts over the next two years now have updated recommendations from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).

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About Us Institute For Safe Medication Practices

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Disrespectful Behaviors: Their Impact, Why They Arise and Persist, …

WebIn our October 3, 2013, issue of the newsletter, we published the results of our survey (), which clearly exposed healthcare’s continued tolerance of and indifference to …

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High-Reliability Organizations (HROs): What They Know That We …

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Three New Best Practices in the 2022-2023 Targeted Medication …

WebISMP has released its 2022-2023 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals.The purpose of these Best Practices is to identify, inspire, and mobilize …

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Three New Best Practices in the 2024-2025 Targeted Medication …

WebISMP has released its 2024-2025 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals, whose purpose is to identify, inspire, and mobilize widespread, national adoption of …

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Disrespectful Behavior in HealthcareHave We Made Any Progress …

WebBullying, incivility, intimidation, and other forms of disrespectful behavior have run rampant in healthcare, allowed to exist while many remain silent or make excuses—“That’s just the …

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Patients with Low Health Literacy Make More Errors Interpreting

WebProblem: Whether limited by knowledge, socioeconomic factors, emotional or clinical state, or cultural background, the patient’s level of health literacy—the ability to …

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Understanding Human Over-Reliance on Technology

WebLimit human-computer interfaces. Organizations should continue to enable all technology to communicate seamlessly, thereby limiting the need for human interaction with the …

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Emergency Preparedness: Be Ready for Unanticipated Electronic …

WebProblem: In its accreditation manual for hospitals, The Joint Commission (TJC) describes an “emergency” as an incident that often occurs rapidly without notice, …

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Disrespectful Behaviors and Their Negative Effects in Healthcare

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Guidelines for Standard Order Sets

WebThe ISMP Guidelines for Standard Order Sets has been developed to help organizations ensure that the elements of safe order communication have been followed …

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Minimizing Distractions and Interruptions During Medication …

WebProblem: A distraction occurs when an individual’s attention is drawn away from one task to a different task, or when they are trying to work on multiple tasks at the …

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High-alert medication list for acute care settings updated for …

WebA hospital reported a close call with two high-alert medications when potassium chloride for injection concentrate (500 mEq/250 mL) was found in the heparin …

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Controlled Substance Drug Diversion by Healthcare Workers as a …

WebIn Part I, we discussed how drug diversion not only endangers healthcare workers diverting drugs, but also causes harm to coworkers, employers, and can …

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Medical Abbreviations That Have Contradictory or Ambiguous …

WebISMP would like to thank Neil M. Davis, PharmD, MS, FASHP, for authoring this article. The author can be reached at: [email protected] for any comments or questions. Introduction. …

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Disrespectful Behavior in Healthcare: Has It Improved

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Just Culture, Medication Error Prevention, and Second Victim …

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