A process to reduce and avoid medication errors.
Do you have a written policy to avoid medication errors? If look-alike or sound-alike medications are present you must identify and maintain a current list of these medications and actions to prevent errors that are evident during your surgery center accreditation inspection.
If you have different strengths of a medication distinctively label them with the strength/milligrams. Also use the color coded dot system or highlighter to denote look-alike sound-alike medications.
Last but not least keep a copy of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) list of confused drug names and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ISMP list of look-alike drug names on site.
Here’s to your success,
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