ASHP Medication Safety Resources and Products
ASHP is the leading provider of medication safety education and resources. We are dedicated to providing timely and important information to our members and customers. Whether you're seeking in-depth knowledge about medication, our user-friendly platform is your go-to resource. Below you will find news, updates, guidance documents, and resources to help you and your staff in their roles as patient care providers.
Publications MED SAFE
ASHP has carefully curated the following collection of our most noteworthy publications pertaining to medication safety for those involved in any stage of the medication use process.
Pediatric Injectable Drugs, 12th Edition
Pediatric Injectable Drugs, also known as “The Teddy Bear Book,” is one of the ASHP’s most recognized and trusted resources dedicated to helping pharmacists treat pediatric patients with injectable drugs. For more than 20 years, pharmacists and hospital pediatric teams have looked to this book for the most comprehensive research-based information on pediatric intravenous infusions.
Includes more than 4,800 references for 273 updated monographs (including 7 monographs that are new to this edition) and covers the following areas:
- Medication error potential
- Infusion-related cautions
- Dosages and dose adjustment in organ dysfunction
- Additives and suitable diluents
- Maximum concentrations
- Preparation and delivery
- Bolus, intermittent, and continuous IV administration
- Other routes of administration
AHFS Drug Information®
AHFS DI is the most comprehensive evidence-based source of drug information complete with therapeutic guidelines and off-label uses. With expanded and revised content supported by more than 97,000 references and incorporating the advice of numerous subject matter experts, AHFS DI helps you protect your patients.
Highlights of the new edition include:
- MedWatch alerts, Standardize4Safety information, REMS data, and focused FDA updates for various medications
- Clinical perspective sections that include place of therapy discussions and recommendations from therapeutic guidelines
- Expanded coverage of specialty medications used to treat a variety of complex, chronic conditions that often require special handling and administration and may require careful oversight to manage severe adverse effects and dosage adjustments
- Contemporary topics such as new RSV treatments and vaccines, safety issues associated with glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists, novel orphan drugs, biosimilars, and more
Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations: A Guide for Effective Dosing, 2nd Edition
Designed to help practitioners including pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and others develop a high level of skill in performing the required mathematical calculations associated with opioid conversions, plus the confidence to safely and effectively manage their patients’ needs for pain relief.
This resource includes:
- Learning objectives and practice problems with solutions in each chapter
- New clinical cases throughout, including detailed discussions of cases that demonstrate errors in opioid dose calculations
- Expanded information on less commonly used opioids, including levorphanol and nalbuphine
- Important summary points at the end of each chapter
- Updated pearls, pitfalls, and fast facts
Anticoagulation Therapy: A Clinical Practice Guide, 2nd Edition
Anticoagulation Therapy: A Clinical Practice Guide, 2nd Edition, helps take the guesswork out of managing these therapies and provides essential recommendations.
New in This Edition:
- Extensive new information on direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs)
- Expanded information on anticoagulant reversal and expanded use of prothrombin complex concentrates
- New chapters on the use of anticoagulants in special patient populations, the use of anticoagulants in patients with mechanical devices, anticoagulation care delivery standards, regulatory issues, and more
- Four new appendices on the effect of DOACs on chemotherapy, nutritional influences, types of central nervous system hemorrhage, and use of anticoagulation in patients with coagulopathies
Medication Safety Officer's Handbook
The medication safety officer's arena is fascinating, challenging, and ever-evolving.
Get the answers you want at your fingertips, on questions such as:
- What are all the responsibilities of an MSO?
- How do I prioritize?
- With no formal authority, how do I make changes?
- How do I design a template for a modified root cause analysis?
- What should be included in a medication safety orientation for staff?
- Where is the most trustworthy information on a particular safety topic?
AJHP Medication Safety and Drug Safety Collection
This AJHP collection contains articles that discuss various aspects of safe medication use and drug safety.
ASHP PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES℠
The ASHP PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATESSM educational product line provides high-quality, practical professional development opportunities for practitioners and pharmacy personnel. We currently offer several ASHP PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATESSM for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and other healthcare personnel who aim to optimize medication safety within their practice.
Medication Safety Certificate
ASHP's Medication Safety Certificate activities are intended for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, pharmacy technicians, and other healthcare professionals responsible for improving the safety of medication use in their respective practice settings. The learning modules meet the continuing education (CE) criteria of the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CPPS).
- 41 contact hours
- 15 modules
- Pharmacy, Physician & Nursing Accredited
- Content released on 08/24/2022
- Completion required by 08/24/2025
Medication History-Taking & Reconciliation Certificate
ASHP’s Medication History-Taking & Reconciliation Certificate is designed to increase the foundational knowledge and skills associated with taking a patient’s medication history with emphasis on patient safety, how to take the most accurate medication history, and how to implement and customize a medication history taking process in any practice setting.
- 17 CE hours
- Content released on Apr. 5, 2023
- Completion required by Apr. 5, 2026
Medication History-Taking Certificate
ASHP’s Medication History-Taking Certificate is designed to equip pharmacy technicians for their important role as medication history-takers, and to prepare them for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board® (PTCB) Medication History Certificate exam.
- PTCB-Recognized
- 15.5 CE hours
- Content released on Apr. 5, 2023
- Completion required by Apr. 5, 2026
COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
ASHP's Competency Assessment Centers are intended and designed for institutional use allowing you to equip your staff with the most comprehensive and current compounding competency resources on the market. As the field of pharmacy continues to evolve with emerging medications, technologies, and regulations, it is crucial for pharmacists and healthcare professionals to maintain and develop their skills and knowledge.
Medication Safety Competency Assessment Center
Designed for pharmacist and pharmacy technician staff to ensure foundational knowledge and skills needed to optimize safe medication use for all patients. Access to 15+ competencies and key skills assessments covering event reporting, waste disposal, handling of hazardous drugs, and more. CE Hours: 10+
Popular Competencies:
- Just Culture and Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcomes
- Common Triggers to Identify Safety Risk
- Safety and Drug Shortages: Considerations and Management
ASHP Consulting Services
ASHP Consulting Services
Ask our experts. ASHP offers scalable, affordable, and customizable consulting services to help you develop, implement, and evaluate tools for monitoring and enhancing control of your medication use system.
Service offerings include:
- Organization Oversight and Accountability
- Interdisciplinary Human Resource Management
- Automation and Technology
- Monitoring and Surveillance
- Chain of Custody
- Storage and Security in All Areas
- Internal Pharmacy Controls
- Prescribing and Administration
- Returns, Waste, and Disposal
- Audits and Analysis
- Policy and Procedure Review
- Legal and Regulatory Requirements