by Keri McDermott | Apr 13, 2021 | Featured, Medication Safety, Opioids, Quality Care Coalition, Quality of Care Transitions
Join us for the Medication Safety Action Group Webinar, April 20, 2021, 3:00 – 4:00 pm CT. This session builds on the March 16 learning event: Medication Safety – Impact of Aging on Medication Use with Kristen Carter, PharmD, Lynn’s Dakotamart, Pierre, SD. This is an...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 5, 2021 | Featured, Medication Safety, Opioids, Patient Safety, Quality Care Coalition
Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period, according to recent provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
by Keri McDermott | Mar 30, 2021 | Featured, Great Plains QIN, Opioids, Quality Care Coalition
Jayme Steig, PharmD, RPh; Great Plains Quality Innovation Network Quality Improvement Advisor was selected to present on a national community of practice call to provide an overview of the ONE Rx program. The presentation took place on March 23. The Opioid and...
by Keri McDermott | Feb 4, 2021 | Featured, Medication Safety, Opioids
The Opioid & Naloxone (ONE Rx) team at North Dakota State University’s Department of Pharmacy Practice recently received recognition for a paper they authored titled, Program evaluation of the Opioid and Naloxone Education (ONE Rx) program using the RE-AIM...
by Keri McDermott | Jan 22, 2021 | Featured, Medication Safety, Opioids
Communities throughout the nation continue to be impacted by the opioid epidemic, which has worsened the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) can affect women in particular ways at all stages of life, including adolescence, adulthood, pregnancy,...
by sfredenburg | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured, Medication Safety, Opioids
An official Health Advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was recently released regarding an increase in fatal drug overdoses driven by synthetic opioids. A record increase in overdose deaths of 18.2 percent was reported from June 2019 to...
by Keri McDermott | Dec 28, 2020 | Featured, Opioids
CDC released a new suite of training tools and resources to help clinicians and healthcare executives apply CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in clinical settings Addressing the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in the Emergency Department: This new...
by sfredenburg | Dec 14, 2020 | Chronic Disease Self-Management, Featured, Great Plains QIN, Hospitals, Medication Safety, Opioids, Patient Safety
Emergency departments are among the frontline providers for assessment and treatment of substance use, opioid use and non-fatal drug overdose. According to the Avoid Opioid web site, opioid deaths in South Dakota have steadily increased since 2012 and unintended...
