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Solutions to Create IV Room Efficiency and Improve Patient Safety

1. Identify areas to create sterile products preparation efficiencies
2. Ways to improve sterile products processes using a workflow management tool
3. Describe ways to decrease sterile products processing errors through standardized workflow

Safety Considerations When Evaluating Outsourcing Compounding
Sterile Products

1. Describe 3 cases each of reported issues with compounded sterile products from outsourced providers and from in-house hospital pharmacies.
2. Describe how outsourced compounded sterile products compare in terms of safety to manufacturer-prepared sterile products, in-house prepared compounded sterile products, and point-of-care prepared compounded sterile products.
3. List the 5 key elements when making a decision to prepare compounded sterile products in-hours vs. using an outsourced contracted provider.
4. List the TJC requirements that apply to an outsourced compounded sterile products provider and managing their services.
5. List the six key components of selecting an outsourced vendor, and the considerations that need to be included for each.

Guidelines from the ISMP Summit on IV Admixture Safety

1. Identify system-based causes of medication errors associated with preparation of compounding sterile preparations (CSPs) in the acute care setting
2. Identify storage, workflow, labeling, quality control, and documentation best practices that should be standardized and incorporated into the manual preparation of all CSPs
3. Discuss current technologies and describe how each can be used to reduce the risk of error in the preparation of CSPs
4. Learn how to participate in further development and finalizing of these best practice guidelines

Transitions in Care Best Practices Models: Case Studies in Pharmacy Practice

1. Define the current barriers to successful transitions of care
2. Describe the role of the pharmacist in various transitions of care models
3. Discuss the impact of transitions of care programs on medication safety and hospital readmission rates
4. Identify best practices for transitions of care that could be implemented at your institution

Waste Not Want Not: Using LEAN Principles to Reduce IV Waste

1. Enhance the IV room productivity and reduce IV waste while improving medication delivery to the nursing units
2. Demonstrate strategies resulting in the significant decrease in medication requests
3. Identify changes in the IV Drug Delivery preparation and delivery process that resulted in a IV drug cost savings

Pharmacy's Role in Optimizing Transitions of Care

1. List common problems with transitions of care
2. Explain the potential reimbursement penalties for excess readmission rates
3. Describe potential roles for the pharmacist in improving a patient's transition of care