This is not about informatics. It has a slight information system twist to the story. Please bear with me, as I have checked enough IV's and presided over some horrendous medication errors as a pharmacy administrator that this injustice bothers me tremendously.
It baffles me why ASHP would comment on an pharmacist portrayal in TV show (BFD), yet remain ignorantly silent on jail time for a hospital pharmacist due to an error. Please speak out on this!
Am Soc Medication Safety Officer (ASMSO) remain silent as well. I guess a non-punitive environment for patient safety sounds good, but when the rubber meets the road, lets not rock the boat.
I recently was asked to speak on patient safety. Even though I do not know him at all, I suggested that they have Eric Cropp speak instead. Please consider doing the same. At least ISMP has the chutzpah to comment. It is appalling that there is no official ASHP or ASMSO statement. Outrageous.
http://www.ismp.org/pressroom/...ime-for-pharmacist.asp Safetynurse twitter comments and links.
ISMP's statement about the criminal prosecution and sentencing of an OH pharmacist 4 an OTJ error:http://bit.ly/Wy9lN The consequences of punishing healthcare professionals 4 being human. #pharmacy #patientsafetyhttp://bit.ly/r9T8z What say you?
John Poikonen, Pharm.D.