From Stress to Safety: Addressing Understaffing’s Role in Medication Incidents
Pharmacies are under increasing pressure from work demands and understaffing. Use these four tactics to reduce work stress and the chances of patient harm in your pharmacy.
Near-Miss Event Reporting: A Proactive Approach to Preventing Patient Harm
Near-miss events in the community pharmacy system are both a warning and an opportunity. Learn more about how near-miss events can prevent incidents, reduce the chances of patient harm, and transform pharmacy practice on a national level.
Safety Culture for Safer Compounding
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!
4 Safety Culture Resources for Community Pharmacy
According to the US Institute of Medicine, “the biggest challenge to moving toward a safer health system is changing the culture from one of blaming individuals for errors to one in which errors are treated not as personal failures, but as opportunities to improve the system and prevent harm.” Unfortunately, a ‘blame and shame’ approach […]