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INJURY PREVENTION INSTITUTE

SAFER Medication Use Program Now Available

The ENA Injury Prevention Institute/EN CARE�s recently released SAFER Medication Use program educates health care professionals on in-hospital and community-based approaches to reducing adverse drug events among older adults. The CD-ROM contains:

Health Care Professional and Community-Based Modules

Two PowerPoint� Presentations

Four brochures (English and Spanish versions)

The health care professional module focuses on practice, and the community-based module focuses on safe medication use among community-dwelling adults.

The goal of the SAFER Medication Use program is to help reduce the incidence of adverse drug events (ADEs) by: 1) Educating nurses and other health care professionals about the causes and risk factors that contribute to ADEs, specifically among older adults; and 2) Educating ED patients and community members, especially older adults, on safe medication practices.

To order today, go to www.ena.org/store/ and click on Injury Prevention Institute Education Programs.