2- Tuesday  Pharmacy Practice News – 9th March

How to Stay Optimistic (When Everything Is Awful)

• These are challenging times to stay energized and upbeat.
• The author offers four pieces of advice to help make you and your colleagues more optimistic:
  • Insist on crisp execution, but make room for “organizational foolishness”;
  • Invite everyone to become a problem-solver, then give them room to fix things;
  • Don’t just champion new ideas; strengthen personal relationships; and
  • To counter so much bad news, share every piece of good news.

Source: Harvard Business Review

The Most-Talked-About Articles in ACCP’s Official Journals

• With over 700,000 downloads in 2020, ACCP’s official journals publish the papers you want to read.
• In addition to the record number of downloads in 2020, ACCP journal articles are stirring up conversation on social media and news outlets.
• The most-talked-about manuscripts published in JACCP and Pharmacotherapy in 2020 are listed in this article.
• It’s a great time to share these important articles with your colleagues. They will be free to download for the next 30 days.

Source: ACCP

From intensive care to step-down units: Managing patients throughput in response to COVID-19

• The on-going COVID-19 pandemic may cause the collapse of healthcare systems because of unprecedented hospitalization rates.
• A total of 8.2 individuals per 1000 inhabitants have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in our province.
• The hospital predisposed 110 beds for COVID-19 patients: on the day of the local peak, 90% of them were occupied and intensive care unit (ICU) faced unprecedented admission rates
• Instead of increasing the number of ICU beds, the creation of a step-down unit (SDU) close to the ICU was preferred: the aim was to safely improve the transfer of patients and to relieve ICU from the risk of overload.

Source: Oxford Academic

A novel method of assessing clinical preparedness for COVID-19 and other disasters

• The emergence of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) highlights the necessity of rapidly identifying and isolating potentially infected individuals.
• USPs revealed significant variation in care practices within a clinical system. Utilization of this assessment methodology can provide just-in-time clinical information about readiness and safety practices, particularly during emerging outbreaks.
• USPs will prove especially powerful as clinicians and systems return to outpatient visits while remaining vigilant about potentially infected individuals.

Source: Oxford Academic

Hospital medication errors: a cross-sectional study

• Medication errors (MEs) are among the most common types of incidents reported in Australian and international hospitals.
• There is no uniform method of reporting and reducing these errors.
• This study aims to identify the incidence, time trends, types and factors associated with MEs in a large regional hospital in Australia.
• Specific training of junior staff in prescribing and administering medication and nurse workload management could be possible solutions to reducing MEs in hospitals.

Source: Oxford Academic

COVID-19: leadership on the frontline is what matters when we support healthcare workers

• The implications of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) on healthcare systems globally are proving to be immense.
• Local and national healthcare systems, hospitals and healthcare workers have been overwhelmed by the needs of patients.
• In this commentary, we argue that urgent research is needed globally to bridge the evidence gap that exists on how best to support healthcare workers with the repercussions of working on the frontline of a pandemic.
• Leadership on the frontline is what matters.

Source: Oxford Academic

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