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The Handbook on Storing and Securing Medications
Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Handbook: 150 pages
ISBN 0866889191
Joint Commission Resources / JCAHO
February 2006
Price $75.00
(Amazon's prices are always equal to, or less than, JCAHO's prices)

 

This book, co-published by JCAHO and The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), identifies and discusses common issues related to storing and securing medications that may lead to non-compliance with the Joint Commission standards and ASHP requirements.

This is an important book for your risk management, compliance and patient safety programs.

Use of this book will help to ensure that you are in compliance with the ASHP and JCAHO requirements. Special features of this handbook include:

  • Detailed explanation of Joint Commission and ASHP requirements for medication storage and security across many clinical settings
  • Checklist of ASHP guidelines and Joint Commission standards related to storing and securing medications to help implement safe practices and efficient policies in your organization
  • Tips, strategies, and solutions to reduce the risk of errors with common medication storage and security issues including look-alike, sound-alike medications, crash carts, radiopharmaceuticals, and security costs

You may view an excerpt of this book here.

ASHP is the 30,000-member national professional association that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term care facilities, home care, and other components of health care systems. ASHP, which has a long history of medication-error prevention efforts, believes that the mission of pharmacists is to help people make the best use of medicines. Assisting pharmacists in fulfilling this mission is ASHP's primary objective. The Society has extensive publishing and educational programs designed to help members improve their professional practice, and it is the national accrediting organization for pharmacy residency and pharmacy technician training programs.

JCAHO's mission is to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit organization, established more than 50 years ago. Joint Commission is governed by a board that includes physicians, nurses, and consumers. The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the US. An independent, not-for-profit organization, the Joint Commission is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Since 1951, the Joint Commission has maintained state-of-the-art standards that focus on improving the quality and safety of care provided by health care organizations. The Joint Commission's comprehensive accreditation process evaluates an organization's compliance with these standards and other accreditation requirements.

Joint Commission Resources, Inc. (JCR), an affiliate of JCAHO, is a global, knowledge-based organization which disseminates information regarding accreditation, standards development and compliance, good practices, and health care quality improvement. Joint Commission Resources is dedicated to helping health care organizations world-wide to improve the quality of patient care and achieve peak performance. JCAHO and Joint Commission Resources are your sources for guidance as you achieve peak performance on your next survey, improve your business operations, and most importantly, as you seek to provide higher quality health care services. You may also be interested in these periodicals from JCAHO:

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