Pharmacy and Prescription Drugs

This topic page provides a brief overview of the Center for Rural Health’s activities relating to Pharmacy and Prescription Drugs. This page contains a list of projects, key staff, and information pulled from the publications, presentations, events, news, and maps section of the CRH web site.

Projects

• Implementing a Project of Patient Safety in Small Rural Hospitals -- This project is designed to create a model process for implementing a medication safety program in small rural hospitals.

Staff

• Knudson, Alana

Presentations

• Implementing Best Practice Acts
  Presented by Spike, C. on Oct 11, 2006 at the Toolbox of Solutions for Rural Challenges, Fargo, ND.
• Root Cause Analysis: A Tool for Improvement
  Presented by Beattie, S. & Ranstrom, B. on Oct 11, 2006 at the Toolbox of Solutions for Rural Challenges, Fargo, ND.
• Implementing a Program of Patient Safety in Small Rural Hospitals
  Presented by Knurdson, A., Beattie, S., & Miller, M. on Jul 1, 2006 at the site visits for the 10 participating hospital staff, in Bowman, Harvey, Hettinger, Hillsboro, Mayville, McVille, Park River, Rolla, Rugby, and Watford City, ND.

Publications

• Pharmacist Staffing and the Use of Technology in Small Rural Hospitals: Implications for Medication Safety, Casey, M., Moscovice, I., & Davidson, G., December, 2005
  Reports the results of a national study that assessed the capacity of rural hospitals to implement medication safety practices, with particular focus on pharmacist staffing and the availability of technology.
• Translating Research Into Practice: Voluntary Reporting of Medication Errors in Critical Access Hospitals, Jones, K.J., Cochran, G., Hicks, R.W., & Mueller, K.J., Journal of Rural Health, 20(4):335-43, 2004
  Describes the implementation of and initial findings from a voluntary medication error reporting program developed by the Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research to overcome these barriers in six Nebraska critical access hospitals.