How nurses contribute to medicines reconciliation
Chetan Shah Associate director, Medicines Use and Safety Division, NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service, leading on a medicines reconciliation project
Nola Ishmael Former, Department of Health private secretary to the chief nursing officer for England, now retired
Julia Wright Director, Medicines Use and Safety Division, NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service
Chetan Shah and colleagues provide an overview of conducting effective processes with a view to developing a best practice toolkit
The process of obtaining an up-to-date and accurate patient medication list, medicines reconciliation (MedRec), is vital to ensuring patient safety. Despite its high status as a patient safety issue, and the efforts made to drive and implement robust MedRec processes, further efforts are required to identify and disseminate best practice (Greenwald et al 2010). This article outlines some of the principles involved in conducting effective MedRec and invites interested nurses to join a working group that aims to develop a best-practice toolkit.
Nursing Management.
22, 2, 18-22.
doi: 10.7748/nm.22.2.18.e1342
Correspondence
chetanshah@nhs.net
Peer review
This article has been subject to double blind peer review
Conflict of interest
None declared
Received: 15 January 2015
Accepted: 19 March 2015
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