Medication Safety Alert! January 2024

In this month's issue:

• Ensuring Competency and Safety When Onboarding Newly Hired Professional Staff – Part I

• Worth repeating… Overwrap prevents barcode scanning

• what’s in a Name? The “-vastatin” drug stem name

• FDA warns of serious reaction to anti-seizure medications

• Confusion over sterility of povidone-iodine solution

• Obtain 1 hour of FREE nursing CE