Onboarding New Pharmacy Staff: Best Practices for Building a Safety-First Culture
Introduction In Summer 2023, the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba (CPhM) conducted the Community Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®). The survey invited community pharmacy staff to share their perspectives on patient safety and safety culture in their workplace. The results, published in the summer 2023 College of Pharmacists of Manitoba newsletter, in the […]
Everyone Has a Role to Play: Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Community Pharmacy
Each community pharmacy team member plays an important role in the prescription process. Learn more about what you can do in your role to improve the prescription process in your pharmacy.
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.
Keeping Up with Quality Improvement (QI) for Healthcare Professionals: Bite-sized Resources and Communities for Collaboration
Quality improvement (QI) in healthcare can feel overwhelming. Explore simplified key QI concepts with these four quality improvement resources.
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 […]