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Critical 2024 Updates to AORN Medication Safety Guideline: updates focus on avoiding medication errors and enhancing patient and nurse safety in periop settings. Discusses key aspects such as organizational oversight, proper medication handling, and specific protocols for hazardous drugs.
How periop staff can protect patients and themselves from exposure to hazardous medications.
Take a closer look at this crucial patient safety and potential liability issue through an outpatient lens. Discover successful strategies in medication storage and security for ASCs.
Periop nurses and teams will find significant revisions in nearly every section of the AORN Guideline for Medication Safety. Key changes in the Medication Safety guideline include creation of new sections on organizational oversight and technology, and revision of recommendations related to compounding, labeling, and hazardous medications.
Periop nurses and teams will find significant revisions in nearly every section of the AORN Guideline for Medication Safety. Key changes in the Medication Safety guideline include creation of new sections on organizational oversight and technology, and revision of recommendations related to compounding, labeling, and hazardous medications.
Protect staff from hazardous medication exposures, prevent patient injury or death caused by contaminated compounded meds, and consider use of safer technology. Get an inside look at three major medication safety risks threatening surgical staff and patients and specific evidence-based recommendations for periop staff.