Medication Safety Alert! October 2016

In this month's issue:

• Worth repeating... Recent Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) by Proxy Event Suggests Reassessment of Practices That May Have Fallen by the Wayside
• Don't bring controlled substances to the bedside or procedural area before they are ordered or needed
• NANALERT: NAN Alert about syringe leakage
• Crash cart drug mix-up
• Strength confusion (ORKAMBI)