Every healthcare hero has a story, and not all of them wear scrubs or work at the bedside.

Poor formulary communication costs health systems money in ways that rarely show up as a single line item, which is exactly why the problem persists as long as it does.

What are you doing to protect employees from hazardous drug exposure who don’t have access to the EHR?

How Can We Transform Outpatient Pharmacy Safety Through Data, Culture, and Accountability? 

In this installment of our Healthcare Affirmations series, we're spotlighting Audrey Kostrzewa, PharmD, MPH, Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Medication Utilization Pharmacist, whose dual role in academia and health systems bridges the gap between teaching the next generation and tackling one of pharmacy's most pressing challenges: systematic safety in outpatient settings.

Every day, nurses make thousands of judgment calls that shape safety at the bedside. In this installment of Healthcare Affirmations, we’re spotlighting Leah, an Oncology Nurse Educator at mid-sized healthcare system on the East Coast, whose work turns complex safety policies into usable action for frontline teams. 

In this installment of our Healthcare Affirmations series, we’re spotlighting Erica Bane, System Medication Safety Officer at a large healthcare system, whose career journey took her from the operating room to overseeing medication safety across an entire health system. 

When we first set out to reduce exposure to hazardous drugs, our work centered on our trusted PharmD partners. Over the past five years, as we’ve helped health systems comply with USP <800> and protect their workers, one truth has become clear: nurses play a critical role in keeping everyone safe.

The overall turnover rate for oncology nurses is approximately 27%, which jumps to up to a staggering 40% among early-career nurses in their first or second year, according to a podcast by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS).

Did you catch the blog Laura wrote recently about our time in Transylvania?  If not, check it out!  One thing our long flights and car rides afforded us was the time to catch up on our reading list.

At Rpharmy, we pride ourselves on the relationships we've built with our clients over the years. These trusted partnerships often lead to eye-opening conversations—conversations that help us understand the real challenges healthcare teams face and how we can better support them. One such discussion recently centered on a deceptively simple but critical question.