Standard MM.7.10 The organization develops processes for managing high-risk or high-alert medications. JCAHO defines high-risk and high-alert medications as medications involved in a high ...

Many nurses were unaware of an important product safety issue with Carpuject cartridges that could lead to overdoses with high-alert medications. Many nurses reported using Carpuject prefilled ...

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices is a nonprofit dedicated to educating patients and the healthcare community about safe medication practices with free resources, consulting and research.

Should an issue develop, or the safety of a medication come into question ... when in fact what is inside the box is something else. Is poorly manufactured. Manufacturing defects related to ...

Since 1995, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has made efforts to identify drugs most likely to cause harm to adult patients and has termed these drugs ‘High-Alert Medications.’ ...