2008 Midyear Clinical Meeting
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High-Alert Medications and the Pharmacist's Role in Insulin Safety: The IHI 5 Million Lives Campaign
Track:
Small and Rural Hospitals
Program Code: 257-L05
Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008
Time: 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST
Location:
S230H
MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
Mr. Frank Federico, RPh, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
PRESENTER(S):
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Bona Benjamin,
BS Pharm, Director, Medication-Use Quality Improvement,
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
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Patient safety officer for 10 years
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Kerry Butler
Mr. Frank Federico, RPh, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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Prior to joining ISMP, Matt was employed in the acute care setting for over 27 years, most recently as director of pharmacy and materials management and Institutional Review Board chairman. In addition to performing onsite medication safety risk assessments and speaking about medication safety in hospitals throughout the United States, Matt has created program tools and content for the Regional Medication Safety Program for Hospitals, a collaborative program with the Health Care Improvement Foundation of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council and ECRI Institute and has co-created the Rural Hospital Medication Safety Connections Program. Matt serves as part-time faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in their Executive Patient Safety Fellowship Program. Matt received his BS in Pharmacy and MS in Hospital Pharmacy Administration from Temple University and has published numerous articles in the pharmacy and medical literature.
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• Sandra Leal, PharmD, CDE is the Clinical Pharmacy Supervisor for El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, Arizona.
• Sandra has been developing a pharmacist managed clinic to target comprehensive diabetes management in underserved populations. She works with various ethnic groups including Hispanic and American Indian populations.
• Sandra earned her Bachelors of Pharmacy and her Doctorate in Pharmacy degrees from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado.
• She went on to complete a General Practice Pharmacy Residency at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System in Tucson.
• In addition, she is the first pharmacist in Arizona to receive prescriptive authority and currently serves as the President of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU), a national organization.
• Dr. Leal was a recipient the ASHP Best Practices Award in Health-System Pharmacy for the successful implementation of an innovative program which improved the quality of patient care in their health-system.
• Most recently she received the 2007 NACHC Innovative Research in Primary Care Award from the National Association of Community Health Centers.
• Some of her current work has been published in Diabetes Care, The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Insulin Journal, and Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease.
Through her work, Dr. Leal has been vigorously working on issues to address patient safety, health literacy, and reduction of health disparities to improve health care and increases access to vulnerable populations.
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- Describe at least two successful strategies for ensuring insulin safety.
- Identify an enhanced role for pharmacists in safe insulin use across the continum of care.
- Identify the most troublesome aspects of high-alert medication use.
- Outline an individualized strategic plan to identify risks and prevent error with insulin use.
