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Safe Practices: A Study Guide for Nurses Softbound book + nursing contact hours High-Alert Medications and Safe Practices is a vital staff training tool. It helps you protect your patients and your facility. Preventing medication errors is a The Joint Commission training requirement. The Institute of Medicine report, "To Err is Human," found that up to 98,000 deaths per year were the result of medical errors - making medical errors the 8th leading cause of death in the United States. This unnerving statistic is compounded by an increase in legal liability surrounding medication errors. As a learning tool, this guide:
Your nurses will be able to:
You have the option to lead informative educational sessions or to distribute it to your staff nurses to use as a self-study tool. This book for nurses is an easy-to-understand independent study guide or classroom guide that will provide nurses with the knowledge they need to safely administer medications that the The Joint Commission and Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) have deemed high-alert medications. This includes medications like opioids, heparin, insulin, and warfarin. These are the drugs that can carry especially high risks to patients if administered and monitored incorrectly. This program has been designed for use by these individuals to train their nurses:
Medications labeled "high-alert" tend to have higher risk of patient injury when involved in medication error. Patient safety is the underlying issue. Four of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations' (The Joint Commission) seven National Patient Safety Goals cover medication administration. Medication safety has been an important topic for years following the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report, To Err is Human. The report found that up to 98,000 deaths per year were the result of medical errors—making medical errors the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. High-Alert Medications and Safe Practices is a vital staff training tool. It helps you protect your patients and your facility. Preventing medication errors is a The Joint Commission training requirement. This educational activity for 2.7 contact hours is provided by HCPro as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
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