ISMP’s Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Community Pharmacy with Matt Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP

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Matt Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP is the Director of Education at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (also known as ISMP). During our conversation, we talk about ISMP’s Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Community Pharmacy first. Then, we talk about how to report an error, CPE available from past ISMP webinars, adding education on operations to the pharmacy school curriculum, and more. This is a great episode for any pharmacist, pharmacy student, pharmacy technician, or pharmacy owner. Medication Safety is important.

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Bio (May 2024)

Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP is the Director of Education at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). He first joined ISMP in 2000 as an ISMP Safe Medication Management Fellow.

Prior to joining ISMP, he served as a home care and long-term care pharmacy surveyor for the Joint Commission. He was project leader for the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) Hospital Improvement Innovation Network’s (HIIN) Adverse Drug Event (ADE) Project, a collaborative project engaging healthcare organizations to reduce and prevent patient harm from the use of anticoagulants, insulins, and opioids. He has published numerous articles in the pharmacy literature, including regular columns in P&T and is a journal reviewer for a number of publications including the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Pharmacoepidemiology, Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy, BMJ Quality and Drug Safety, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a chapter contributor to a textbook published by McGraw-Hill entitled Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, Essentials of Nurse Informatics, Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy, and Medication Errors. He is recently completed the Just Culture certification course.

Mr. Grissinger serves as the Chair for the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP), and Co-Chair of the National Quality Form (NQF) Common Formats Expert Panel. He is also on the Faculty Advisory Board for the Pharmacy Learning Network (PLN) and the Publications Advisory Board for Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses. He also served on the WHO Focus Group on Measurement Tools for Medication Safety, United States Pharmacopeia’s (USP) Safe Medication Use Expert Committee from 2005-2010, the FDA Proprietary Name Review Concept Paper workshop panel in 2008, FDA Naming, Labeling, and Packaging Practices to Minimize Medication Errors workshop panel in 2010 and the Joint Commission Home Care Compounding Pharmacy Technical Advisory Panel in 2013.

He is also an adjunct assistant professor for Temple University School of Pharmacy. Mr. Grissinger received a BS in Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and is a fellow of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices as well as the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.

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Links from this episode

Matt Grissinger on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-grissinger-63231ab/

ISMPs new website 👉 https://home.ecri.org (Old website is https://www.ismp.org)

ISMP on YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@IsmpOrg

ISMP on Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/ismp1

ISMP on LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/company/ismp/

Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Community Pharmacy 👉 https://home.ecri.org/blogs/ismp-resources/targeted-medication-safety-best-practices-for-community-pharmacy

Report an error 👉 https://home.ecri.org/pages/ecri-ismp-error-reporting-system

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Temple University School of Pharmacy

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