A Guide to The Joint Commission's Medication Management Standards, Second Edition
2009. 160 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59940-272-7
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Consulting Editor: Jeannell M. Mansur, R.Ph., Pharm.D., F.A.S.H.P., Practice Leader, Medication Safety, Joint Commission Resources
The book represents a complete revision of the best-selling 2004 book, A Guide to JCAHO's Medication Management Standards, with all-new case studies and an interpretive discussion of the 2009 Medication Management standards. This book will help hospitals, health care systems, long term care organizations, behavioral health care organizations, and ambulatory care organizations meet the Joint Commission Medication Management standards.
- Tips for complying with standards
- 25 detailed case studies illustrate setting-specific issues covering a wide range of populations.
- In-depth examples of good practices for safe, effective, and efficient medication management systems and compliance with the Medication Management Sandards
- Checklists, policies, order sheets, drug use protocols, and other tools for medication management processes
- Strategies for addressing the critical issues, barriers, and challenges in medication management, including bar coding and electronic medication administration records, control of high-alert medications, use of contrast media in radiology, telepharmacy with a contracted vendor for order-entry services, medication use in the emergency department, medication security and storage, and anticoagulation
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