Enhancing Patient Safety in Community Pharmacies: 3 Improvements for Technical and Clinical Checks
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Improvements to staff training and technical and clinical checks can improve safety in your pharmacy. Learn how with three improvements today.
Safety Culture for Safer Compounding
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Safety culture is essential to reducing the risk of patient harm from a compounding incident. Employ principles of safety culture to reduce risk in your pharmacy today!
6 Key Safety Recommendations for Compounding
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Compounding in pharmacy practice is a high-risk process with a heightened risk for patient harm. Learn more about reducing the risk of patient harm with these six safety improvements.
Good Catches Worth Sharing: Learning from Near-miss Events
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Most community pharmacy incident reports involve catching potential medication incidents before they reach the patient. Improve practice and culture with these good catches today.
Coordination Between Health Care Providers: A Key Factor in Medication Safety
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Learn how timely and seamless communication between providers can prevent medication incidents and prevent patient harm.
Keeping Up with Quality Improvement (QI) for Healthcare Professionals: Bite-sized Resources and Communities for Collaboration
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Quality improvement (QI) in healthcare can feel overwhelming. Explore simplified key QI concepts with these four quality improvement resources.
Communication Errors between Prescribers and Pharmacists: A Persistent Source of Preventable Medication Incidents
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Poor prescriber communication is a persistent source of preventable medication incidents. Learn how structured communication can help
Managing External Pressures in the Pharmacy to Reduce Incidents and Harm
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Managing external pressures in community pharmacy can be a challenge. Use these four key tactics to prevent medication incidents and patient harm when the pharmacy team is under pressure.
Dialogue and Health Literacy: Bridging Gaps for Patient Understanding in Community Pharmacy
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Gaps in patient understanding and health literacy can lead to medication incidents. Learn 5 simple approaches to improve patient engagement and reduce the chances of patient harm.
Strategies for Enhancing Patient Engagement and Identification
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Patient identification and engagement are common contributing factors to medication incidents. These simple safety recommendations can help.