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The Summer Meeting will be a gold mine of best practices in medication safety.

Share Your Views on Proposed ASHP Professional Policies
Calling all ASHP members! We need you to help shape the Society’s professional policies. Simply log in to ASHP’s online discussion forum to review, comment on, and discuss proposed ASHP professional policies that will be considered by the Society’s House of Delegates at the Summer Meeting, June 6–9. ASHP professional policy is developed and approved by ASHP members, so make your voice heard by participating in the discussion. Simply click on ASHPConnect, enter your e-mail address and password, and select the category “House of Delegates.”

ASHP Celebrates 1,000 th Accredited Pharmacy Residency
A major milestone in ASHP’s ongoing effort to increase the number of pharmacy residencies in the U.S. occurred in April. That is when ASHP accredited its 1,000th pharmacy residency—the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center Department of Pharmacy in Chicago. Jesse Brown’s Post-Graduate Year Two program in health-system pharmacy practice administration is under the leadership of Richard J. Rooney, Pharm.D. With the largest pharmacy residency program in the U.S., the VA allows pharmacists to round with patient-care teams, help guide drug therapies, and obtain prescriptive authority within their defined scopes of practice.
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ASHP ONLINE BOOKSTORE HIGHLIGHTS
Assuring Continuous Compliance with TJC Standards
In today’s complex and changing world of compliance, you can’t afford to be left behind. The new eighth edition of Assuring Continuous Compliance with Joint Commission Standards: A Pharmacy Guide can help keep you on track with all standards and goals.

Ensuring Safe Parenteral Drug Therapy for Peds
Most FDA-approved drugs are not formally tested in children and lack even basic dosing information for pediatric use. ASHP’s Pediatric Injectable Drugs (also known as “The Teddy Bear Book”) is the only reference that compiles evidencebased parenteral administration recommendations specifically for pediatric patients. For 25 years, this unique, comprehensive resource has provided reliable age-specific dosage and administration guidelines to pharmacists, nurses, and other health care professionals who administer parenteral drugs to neonates, infants, children, and adolescents. This new ninth edition features 221 monographs of the most commonly used pediatric medications. For more information about Pediatric Injectable Drugs, go to the ASHP online bookstore.

I N S I D E YO U W I LL F I N D N E W I N F O R M AT I O N O N :

• TJC’s survey process, medication-related National Patient Safety Goals, and Medication Management standards. • The National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations surveys of Det Norske Veritas Healthcare. • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ medication-related Conditions of Participation and the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program’s standards. This unique guide also includes a companion CD with nearly 50 example forms and documents you can easily customize. For more information, go to the ASHP online bookstore.

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ASHP Intersections Summer 2010

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ASHP Intersections Summer 2010