ISMP on Medication Safety: Exploring the System Failures of a Medication Error, Insight and Learnings (Part 2)

Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM ET – 4:00pm ET
Duration: 1 hour*

Overview: 
Nursing & Pharmacy Professionals – from students to leadership – can learn about the system factors that contribute to a medication-related error. Nurses and pharmacists play important roles in the medication process through detecting and correcting potential errors. Using malpractice data, recommendations, and ISMP’s experience, nurses and pharmacists can examine their own current risk control practices to not only reduce the likelihood of a medication-related malpractice lawsuit but also increase patient safety. There will be an overview of the key elements in medication-use systems which will lay the foundation highlighting the weaknesses that lead to medication errors. The role of latent failures in the medication system and active failures of individuals will be explored to understand how errors occur. Items that impact decisions by pharmacists and nurses, including the importance of patient and drug information, order communication, and drug packaging and labeling will be discussed. New methods for addressing medication errors as systems failures rather than human failures will be suggested strategies to prevent the potential for error.

 

Objectives:  

1. List the leading medication administration allegations made against Nurses in malpractice lawsuits.
2. List the leading medication dispensing allegations made against Pharmacists in malpractice lawsuits.
3. Discuss the system issues that lead to medication errors.
4. Identify key risk reduction strategies that nurses and pharmacists can incorporate into their practice to prevent and detect medication errors.

 
Speaker Information:

• Speaker: Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP, Director of Education, Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
• Moderator: Jennifer Flynn, CPHRM, Risk Manager, Nurses Service Organization (NSO) & Healthcare Providers Service Organization (HPSO)

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<sub>In order to earn CE credit for this event:
Participants must (1) register, (2) attend the entire live event on 10/1/2024 at 3pm ET, and (3) complete the post event survey evaluation. Only those who meet these requirements will be issued a certificate of completion. It is the responsibility of the participant to make accommodations for time zone.

*This activity is eligible for ANCC credit
Provider Accreditation
This activity for 1.0 contact hour is provided by Lippincott Professional Development and jointly provided by Nurses Service Organization.

Lippincott Professional Development (LPD) is accredited as a provider of Nursing Continuing Professional Development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.

This activity is also provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 11749 for 1.0 contact hours, the District of Columbia, Florida #FBN50- 1223, and Georgia Board of Nursing #50-1223.</sub>