For those of you who are members of a PSO related to medication safety, what PSO are you a member of (ECRI/ISMP PSO or other), and what has been the most valuable part of being part of that particular PSO?

Thanks!

Our health system is working toward opening an urgent care ambulatory clinic at a ski resort nearby. The providers are requesting to have narcotics and some sedation medications such as ketamine and midazolam on site. None of our other ambulatory clinics, including our urgent cares, currently carry or use any controlled medications.

Hi all! I know this topic has come up before but hoping to learn more about how other institutions handle IVIG dispensing/administration specifically in the outpatient setting (such as in an infusion center).

Inpatient we dispense patient-specific bags but outpatient we dispense bags of multiple vials that leads to cumbersome workflows for nursing and less safety measures with scanning.

1) How do you dispense IVIG doses outpatient
2) If you use multiple vials, what measures are in place to ensure safe administration

Thank you!!

Hi all,

We are looking to gather insight on how different institutions standardize "protect from light" requirements for medications. Specifically:

Hello fellow Med Safety colleagues.

I am currently reviewing our organization's med error reporting culture and looking into ways to improve it.

I am curious to see how our reporting behavior compares to other institutions so am hoping you would be willing to share the following:

How does your organization administer IV valproate in the setting of status epilepticus? IV push? Diluted or undiluted? Bonus points if you can share how you have it set up as an orderable in Epic.

Is anyone else looking at the state of U500 vials now that they are being sunset ? only the pens will be available ?

Will you change your formulary ?
thanks for any help !

laura

How are your hospitals approaching PPE when handling body fluids for patients on estrogens (birth control)?

Background: We configured Epic to flag patients who have hazardous home meds. Since estrogens are NIOSH Table 1, nurses were presented a banner saying that they need to be wearing PPE when handling bodily fluids. This has spurred a lot of internal discussion as we determine the risk to staff, and appropriate PPE.

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Our hypertonic saline policy currently requires that sodium chloride 23.4% be administered by a provider. Do you have similar restrictions for who can administer and/or require a provider to be onsite?

I would love if you could let me know in this quick, anonymous poll: https://forms.office.com/r/jUkisNusRF

I will post results back to the forum.

Thank you!

Hi everyone
All members, I hope you all are doing good work.
My topic today is and I also have a query that how to calculate the total number of opportunity for medication errors.

kindly suggest me the Clinical Audit Topics and Best guidelines.

Thanks
PRAVEEN KUMAR
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGIST MSO
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