Best-Selling Drug Reference for Nurses Now a Mobile App
Wolters Kluwer Health has introduced the first mobile application for the Nursing Drug Handbook, the best-selling drug reference for nurses. Available for Apple iPhone, iPad and iTouch and all Android devices, the new application is the first drug reference for nurses to offer weekly updates. Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), the Nursing Drug Handbook App gives the fastest access to the most current drug information for nurses.
A Cost-Effective Approach to Preventing Medication Errors: Nurses’ Clinical Reasoning
Medication Safety
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Obama Takes Action to Reduce Prescription Drug Shortages and Fight Price Gouging
Oct. 31, 2011—President Obama today signed an Executive Order directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action to help further prevent and reduce prescription drug shortages, protect consumers and prevent price gouging. The President’s order directs FDA to broaden reporting of potential shortages of certain prescription drugs and to further expedite regulatory reviews that can help prevent or respond to shortages. Under the President’s order, FDA will also work with to the Department of Justice, which will examine whether potential shortages have led to illegal price gouging or stockpiling of life-saving medications.
Medication Reconciliation in Daily Rounds in the NICU
Medication Reconciliation in Daily Rounds in the NICU
There is a major thrust for patient safety nationwide. With an estimated 1.5 million preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) occurring annually in the United States, there is still a need for better error prevention systems (Institute of Medicine, 2007).
AdverseEvents Launches Innovative Drug Side Effect Reporting System
Sept. 26, 2011—AdverseEvents, Inc., Co-founder and President, Brian Overstreet, will today the launch of the AdverseEvents website—a first-of-its-kind online resource that delivers accurate, real-time information on adverse drug events. Healthcare professionals and patients will now have the ability to quantify and fully understand the scope of safety issues based on accurate rates of side effects by using AEI’s easy-to-use, fully searchable database.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! The Power of Storytelling
Sept. 21, 2011—A recent issue of the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! promotes the use of true stories to improve patient safety by drawing attention to medication errors and inspiring and sustaining cultural change.
PharMEDium Unveils New Website with Focus on Patient Safety
Aug. 15, 2011—PharMEDium Services, LLC, market leader for customized pharmacy sterile compounding for hospital intravenous and epidural therapies, launched its new website,www.pharmedium.com, which now provides updates on drug shortages, patient safety and ready-to-use pharmacy compounding services.
In Pursuit of a Patient-Centered VA Prescription Label
In Pursuit of a Patient-Centered VA Prescription Label
The patient-centered prescription label movement has roots in primary research studies by notable health literacy proponents (Davis et al., 2006; Davis et al., 2008; Shrank et al., 2007; Sharnk, Avorn et al., 2007). This foundational work paved the way for setting standards for prescription label formats, content, lexicon, and numeracy interpretation.