1: ESR Standards:

Agenda:

1. Handling High Alert Medications
2. Handling Look-alike/Sound-alike Medications
3. Preventing and Reporting Medication Errors

2: Medication Storage and Medication Security

Agenda :

1. Storage of Regular Medications (MM.11)
2. Storage of Refrigerated Medications (MM.12)
3. Hazardous Medications (MM.13)
4. Managing Medication in Patient Care Areas(MM.16)
5. Medication Brought by the Patient (MM.17)
6. Storing Narcotic and Controlled Drugs (MM.18)
7. Handling recalled, discontinued, and damaged medications. (MM.34)

3: Safe Prescribing Practice

Agenda:

1. Accessibility to Patient specific information (MM.1)
2. Prescribing narcotic and controlled drugs (MM.19)
3. Safe prescribing, ordering, and transcribing of medication orders (MM.20)
4. Prescribing, ordering and transcribing of specific types of medication orders. (MM.21)
5. Prescribing antibiotics. (MM.22)
6. Use of verbal and telephone orders of medications. (MM.23)
7. Prescribing non-formulary medications and prescribing formulary medications for off-label (unapproved) indication. (MM.24)
8. Reviewing the appropriateness of medication orders before medication is dispensed. (MM.25)
9. Handling out of stock, shortage and disaster needs of medications (MM.10)

4: Safe Medication Dispensing and Labeling

Agenda:

1. Safe Dispensing of Medications (MM.31)
2. Labeling of Medications (MM.32)
3. Obtaining medications when the pharmacy is closed. (MM.33)
4. accessibility, availability, monitoring, and security of emergency medications. (MM.15)
5. Outpatient education and counseling. (MM.35)

5 : Safe Medication Administration Practice

Agenda:

1. Safe system for drug administration. (MM.36)
2. Review and verify medications before administration. (MM.37)
3. Stability of medications available in multi-dose containers. (MM.14)
4. Monitor the patient response to medications (MM.39)
5. Detecting, managing and reporting ADRs (MM.40)

6 : Safe Preparation of Sterile and Non-Sterile Preparations

Agenda:

1. Sterile Preparations
2. Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
3. Extemporaneous Preparations
4. Infection Prevention and Control