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Too Many Kroll Sessions Open? How to Reduce Wrong-Patient Entry...
Convenience Should Never Create Patient-Safety Risk Community pharmacies move quickly. A staff member may be entering a prescription, updating insurance...
World Patient Safety Day 2026: Safe Care for Life Starts...
September 17, 2026: A Global Reminder That Patient Safety Is an Everyday Responsibility Every prescription filled, medication reviewed, near miss...
Safety Is Not Just What We Do, It’s Who We...
Building a Medication Safety Culture in Community Pharmacy Medication safety is often discussed in terms of processes. Double checks. Incident...
Speak It. Review It. Report It. Introducing Dictate Incident in...
Medication Incident Reporting Just Got Easier A medication incident or near miss happens during a busy pharmacy day. You know...
AIMS 2026: What Every Ontario Pharmacy Should Be Doing Before...
The Assurance and Improvement in Medication Safety (AIMS) program is entering an important transition period. The Transition Year Is Here....
Benchmark Your Pharmacy’s Safety Performance: Provincial Benchmarking Now Available in...
How Does Your Pharmacy Compare? Every pharmacy strives to provide safe, high-quality patient care. But one question has always been...
No Incidents This Quarter? Your CQI Meeting Still Matters
How Alberta Pharmacies Can Maintain an Active CQI+ Program Even When There Are No Reported Incidents For many Alberta pharmacies,...
AIMS Isn’t About More Paperwork, It’s About Better Practice
AIMS Isn’t About More Paperwork, It’s About Better Practice With Ontario’s Assurance and Improvement in Medication Safety (AIMS) program launching...
Beyond Incident Reporting: Building a Learning Culture for AIMS in...
Why Ontario Pharmacies Should Start Preparing for AIMS Now January 1, 2027 may seem far away, but successful implementation of...
CIRCL Is More Than a Checklist: Building a Sustainable Medication...
June 1 Is Almost Here. Are You Ready for CIRCL? With only days remaining before the June 1, 2026 CIRCL...
Building Safer Pharmacies: High-Reliability Principles Every BC Pharmacy Can Apply...
Introduction Community pharmacies operate in fast-paced, high-risk environments every day. Multiple prescriptions, workflow interruptions, staffing pressures, patient questions, insurance issues,...
The Swiss Cheese Model in Pharmacy Practice: Understanding Medication Errors...
Introduction Medication errors rarely occur because of a single mistake. In most cases, they happen when multiple weaknesses in a...