Publications

Spotlight: Low-Tech Safety Hospitals have increasingly turned to advanced technology to help keep patients safe. But some providers are discovering that there are considerable virtues in simplicity. Read More

Stop Knowledge Creep

Collaboration in Nursing Knowledge Expansion

By Pape Tera, PhD, RN, CNOR and Becky Richards, MA, BSN, RN
Reducing distractions during medication administration cut errors in half at one California hospital, and now nurses are spreading the concept, sharing with other facilities safer medication-pass processes.

Decreasing Medication Errors

Decreasing Disruptions Reduces Medication Errors

By Debra Wood, RN, contributor
Reducing distractions during medication administration cut errors in half at one California hospital, and now nurses are spreading the concept, sharing with other facilities safer medication-pass processes.

“Kaiser South San Francisco Safe Medication Administration Process (SMAP)”Beacon Collaborative, April 22, 2008 Second Annual Patient Safety Colloquium

Becky Richards, RN, BSN, MA—Adult Clinical Services Director

Safe Medication Administration Process

“Kaiser South San Francisco Safe Medication Administration Process (SMAP)
”Beacon Collaborative, April 22, 2008
Second Annual Patient Safety Colloquium

Becky Richards, RN, BSN, MA—Adult Clinical Services Director

Defining an Adverse Drug Event Kaiser South San Francisco Safe Medication ProcessAdverse drug event (ADE) :Any Injury due to medication (Bates et al., 1995b) 1.5 million ADEs/Medication errors occur each year (IOM, 2007

Evidenced Based Practice Conference—Poster Presentation
Tess M. Pape, PhD, RN, CNOR & Becky Richards, RN, BSN, MA with poster for collaborative research EBP Summer Institute Conference June 26, 2008

University of Texas
If to Err is Human, to Distract is In Human
San Antonio, Texas.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Visit for ‘Fall Harvest’ 2007 to Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco. Presented information related to Safe Medication Administration Process. University of Texas

CalNOC 10th Annual Conference
Podium Presentation
Preventing Adverse Drug Events: A Protocol to Reduce Interruptions and Distractions of Registered Nurses During the Medication Administration Process (MAP). Anaheim, California.

Mary Hanna Journalism Award, 1st Place for Best Practice. JOPAN.
Developing a Same Day Laminectomy Program
American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)
Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois. April 2005

New Direction, Same Road
Managers' Fast Track
Nursing Management. 33(2):16, February 2002.
Richards, Becky RN
Abstract:
New managers rely on solid competency to rise to new challenges.

"Innovation at the Forefront of Action:
How Collaborative Research Methods Made a Quality Difference in Medication Administration” accepted for future publication by Nursing Management