Richmond Accreditation 2013: Medication Reconciliation
Check out issue #6 of the Richmond Accreditation Newsletter to find out more about what surveyors will look for in how we reconcile our patients’ medications.
Medication Reconciliation is an essential patient safety practice that allows us to catch medication discrepancies, ensure safe prescribing, and avoid potentially harmful medication interactions and adverse events. Because patients are especially vulnerable to medication discrepancies at handoffs of care, surveyors will pay particular attention to the points in the patient’s journey when medications are ordered, and when patients move to a different level of care or point in the continuum.
Richmond has made it a priority to embed medication reconciliation in all those settings where medications are a significant component of care. This includes acute care, perinatal services, outpatient cancer care, mental health, residential care, home & community care, and palliative care.
Find out how we are “walking the talk”, including:
- What Accreditation Canada requires that we do
- Examples of what we already do well in Richmond to meet the requirements
- What we are working on to do even better across Richmond
- What types of questions surveyors may ask during the site visit ….
ROPs are the essential patient safety practices that help protect our patients, clients and residents from serious harm. Surveyors will spend the majority of their time observing these practices during the site visit, and validating them by reviewing documentation and talking with staff, physicians, patients and their families.
Stay tuned for the inside scoop on more ROPs and why they are an integral part of Richmond’s Quality Journey…