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In this episode, we talk about how healthcare practitioners give medicine through a vein, and a way that healthcare organizations can make it safer for patients. We’ll discuss why ready-to-administer medications are safer, and what patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers should know. You can find ISMP’s Safe Practice Guidelines for Adult IV Push Medications at <a href="https://home.ecri.org/blogs/ismp-resources/safe-practice-guidelines-for-adult-iv-push-medications." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://home.ecri.org/blogs/ismp-resources/safe-practice-guidelines-for-adult-iv-push-medications.</a>This episode is made possible through an education grant from Fresenius Kabi.

Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA, CPEL

Vice President of Pharmacy, Emory Healthcare and Winship Cancer Institute

Jana O’Hara, MSN, RN, CPHFH, CPHQ, CPPS

Director of Consulting & Education, Institute for Safe Medication Practices

John Hertig, PharmD, MS, CPPS, FASHP, FFIP

Founder, Hertig Healthcare Advising

In this episode, we talk about how healthcare practitioners give medicine through a vein, and a way that healthcare organizations can make it safer for patients. We’ll discuss why ready-to-administer medications are safer, and what patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers should know. You can find ISMP’s Safe Practice Guidelines for Adult IV Push Medications at https://home.ecri.org/blogs/ismp-resources/safe-practice-guidelines-for-adult-iv-push-medications.
This episode is made possible through an education grant from Fresenius Kabi.

Safe Medicine, Safe Care: What You Need to Know About IV Push Medications

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Welcome to Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI, where we discuss real healthcare safety issues. The goal of this podcast is to bring ECRI's guidance to life. The recommendations are meant to help you get from being aware of an issue to assuring that your patients are safe.  Hear from our experts and guests on topics that affect your delivery of safe patient care.

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Medical emergencies evoke images of the hospital emergency department or emergency medical personnel responding in the community. But medical emergencies can occur anywhere, including in office and clinic settings—and sometimes those emergencies involve medications. In this episode, Dr. Kelley Shultz describes challenges in responding to emergencies in the office setting and steps they can take to prevent emergencies and respond when they do occur.

Kelley Shultz, MD, FAAP

Medical Director, ISMP

In this episode, we discuss challenges in responding to medication-related emergencies in the office setting.

Preparing for Medication Emergencies in the Physician Office

As the school year is winding down, children across the nation are getting ready to attend summer camps. Many of them will need prescription and over-the-counter medications while they’re at camp, away from their parents and primary care providers. If camps aren’t ready to manage the responsibilities of storing and managing those meds, their campers could be at risk. In this episode, Randi Trope, D.O., Vice Chair of Pediatric Quality &amp; Safety, Stony Brook Children's Hospital in New York and a member of the advisory board for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), and Jen Young, PharmD, BCPS, CSP, a pharmacist and medication safety specialist at ISMP, describe safety tips for camp operators, pharmacists, and families.To see more camp safety guidance from ISMP, see <a href="https://www.consumermedsafety.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.consumermedsafety.org</a>; learn more about ISMP’s medication safety work at <a href="http://www.ISMP.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ISMP.org</a>.

In this episode, we discuss safety tips for camp operators, pharmacists, and families.

Medication Safety at Summer Camps

The idea of the “five rights” for medication safety has been taught in nursing school since at least World War II, used as a memory tool that nurses should rely on to administer medications safely. Even though no one can identify where the five rights came from, the idea is embedded in medication safety programs and appears frequently in error reports submitted to ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization.As our guest Susan Paparella, Vice President, Services, Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), points out, the five rights are inadequate as a safety tool. Because they do not address the system-level errors that contribute to medication errors, those errors can occur even when the five rights have been followed. In the latest episode, we discuss more about the shortcomings of the five rights, and better starting points for medication safety programs.Learn more about <a href="https://www.ismp.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ISMP</a> and the <a href="https://www.ecri.org/solutions/medication-safety/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ECRI-ISMP Medication Safety memberships</a>.

Susan Paparella

Vice President, Services, Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)

In this episode, we discuss the shortcomings of the five rights, and better starting points for medication safety programs.


The Myth of the Five Rights for Safe Medication Administration

In this episode, Tim Gibson, Senior Manager, Functional Equivalents, and Andy Poole, Associate Director, Strategy and Innovation, ECRI, describe strategies for enhancing the supply management process in non-acute organizations like nursing homes, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician practices. They describe the importance of building a robust data set and dedicating real staff time to this care-critical activity.

Tim Gibson

Senior Manager, Functional Equivalents, ECRI

Andy Poole

Associate Director, Strategy and Innovation, ECRI

In this episode, we discuss strategies for enhancing the supply management process in non-acute organizations like nursing homes, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician practices.


Managing the Supply Chain in Non-Acute Care Settings

In the latest episode of our podcast, we speak to Karen Garvey, Vice President, Safety and Clinical Risk Management, and J.D. Buchert, Workplace Safety Manager, Parkland Health (Dallas, Texas). They describe their data-driven approach to identifying and combatting workplace violence, including the importance of keeping frontline staff involved in and aware of those efforts.

J.D. Buchert

Workplace Safety Manager, Parkland Health (Dallas, Texas)

Karen Garvey

Vice President, Safety and Clinical Risk Management, Parkland Health (Dallas, Texas)

In this episode, we speak to safety leaders from Parkland Health about their data-driven approach to identifying and combatting workplace violence, including the importance of engaging frontline staff.


Addressing Workplace Violence in Healthcare

In this episode, we talk with nurse leaders from Allegheny Health Network (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) about their innovative blended staffing model that encourages LPNs to return to acute care, along with other programs to help bolster staffing, like incentivizing nurses who have left the workforce to return to practice.

Claire Zangerle, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAONL, FAAN, is the Chief Nurse Executive for Allegheny Health Network, responsible for the integrating nursing practice and strategy across the continuum. As a member of AHN's executive leadership team, she supports and facilitates the patient-centered care delivery model by creating an environment that promotes high quality and consistency in the standard of practice across all AHN facilities and clinics. She serves as the executive nursing voice of AHN’s more than 6,000 nurses.

Claire Zangerle, DNP

Chief Nurse Executive

Erin Toth, MSN, RN, is Nurse Manager of the 5 North/Respiratory Unit at Jefferson Hospital, part of Allegheny Health Network. She previously served as Manager of Hospital Operations at Jefferson Hospital, and has a background as a registered nurse in oncology and critical care.

Erin Toth, MSN, RN

Nurse Manager

In this episode, we talk with nurse leaders from Allegheny Health Network about their innovative blended staffing model that encourages LPNs to return to acute care, along with other programs to help bolster staffing.


Recent Episodes

SEASON 1

Safe Medicine, Safe Care: What You Need to Know About IV Push Medications

Preparing for Medication Emergencies in the Physician Office

Medication Safety at Summer Camps

The Myth of the Five Rights for Safe Medication Administration

Managing the Supply Chain in Non-Acute Care Settings

Addressing Workplace Violence in Healthcare

Innovative Staffing Models to Overcome Nursing Shortage

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Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI

Paul Anderson

Director, Patient Safety, Risk, & Quality Publications