Leveraging a multidisciplinary oversight committee to ensure USP <797> and <800> compliance at a Veterans Affairs health system

Disclaimer In an effort to expedite the publication of articles, AJHP is posting manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been peer-reviewed and copyedited, but are posted online before technical formatting and author proofing. These manuscripts are not the final version of record and will be replaced with the final article (formatted per AJHP style and proofed by the authors) at a later time. Purpose Producing compounded sterile preparations (CSP) of the highest quality and ensuring safe hazardous drug handling are well-established priorities for pharmacy departments. Maintaining compliance with United States Pharmacopeia general chapters 797 and 800 (USP &lt;797&gt; and &lt;800&gt;) must also be a priority for health-system leadership. This report describes how a pharmacy-driven multidisciplinary committee was created to provide USP &lt;797&gt; and &lt;800&gt; oversight within a multicampus Veterans Affairs health system and the facility and safety outcomes achieved. Summary The Veterans Health Administration required facilities to establish an oversight committee to ensure USP-compliant CSP procedures and the safe handling of hazardous drugs in all aspects of the medication-use process. Spearheaded by the pharmacy department, the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) chartered the CSP Advisory Committee to achieve this goal. The membership was composed of department heads in the areas of pharmacy, nursing, environmental management services, engineering, facility planning, safety, industrial hygiene, employee health, supply chain services, infection control, and quality management and the health system’s director’s office. The medication safety officer served as the executive secretary for the advisory committee and was responsible for agenda development, minutes, and coordinating timely follow-ups on action items; the VAPAHCS deputy director served as chair. Monthly meetings were conducted to receive updates on targeted sterile compounding and hazardous drug handling objectives: environmental controls and monitoring, compliance with regulatory requirements, staff competency, hazardous drug exposure event analyses, and development of well-defined health-system policy to guide practice. Conclusion Taking a multidisciplinary approach to USP &lt;797&gt; and &lt;800&gt; compliance facilitated communications, created engagement, and ensured completion of action plans.

China’s National Cybersecurity Center: A Base for Military-Civil Fusion in the Cyber Domain

China’s National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) resides on a 40 km2 plot in Wuhan. As one indication of its significance, the Chinese Communist Party’s highest-ranking members have an oversight committee for the facility. Over the next decade, the NCC will provide the talent, innovation, and indigenization of cyber capabilities that China’s Ministry of State Security, Ministry of Public Security, and People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force hacking teams lack. Though still under construction, the NCC’s first class of graduates will cross the stage in June 2022.

Core Trainees' study budget and study leave: a survey exploring trainees' needs and understanding of local processes in place within the North West

AimsHealth Education England launched a new system for study leave and study budget on 1st April 2018, in response to trainees' concerns regarding the previous system. According to this, Health Education England would manage the study leave budget through its local offices, making the process of accessing study ‘more transparent, equitable and streamlined' for all trainees. At the RAP Oversight Committee meeting of the North West Deanery in 2019, trainees' uncertainties over the process was discussed by the local reps. It was aimed that there was a need to gather information on trainees' needs and understanding of local processes in place by the deanery to access study leave and study budgetMethodA cross sectional survey was sent out to all the trainees by the Core Trainees year 1 RAP rep. A total of 6 relevant questions were designed and sent out to the trainees, allowing them 2 weeks’ time to respond. There were a total of 66 trainees who were sent the survey. The guidance mentioned in the 2016 Gold guide was used for reference to ensure the questions are relevant.ResultOf the total of 66 trainees who were sent the survey, there were 48 respondents. The results indicated that all 48 responders preferred study budget and leave process explained at induction. 47 of 48 respnders sought access to their study budget, 46 of 48 responders sought use of budget for external course and exam fees fudning, 27 of the 48 responders struggled to get study leave and 27 of 48 responders felt the current leave process was not satisfactory with 14 opining that there was scope for improvemement.ConclusionThe responses were collated by the trainee rep as a PowerPoint presentation containing graphical representation of trainees’ views regarding their study leaves and budget access. The survey results were made aware to the local board at the subsequent RAP Oversight Committee meeting to seek response and new guidance. There is a new system in place for study leave and study budgets, overseen by Health Education England. Overall, the survery attempted to understand and collate trainees' wants and needs, in effect improving trainee experiences.

The Activities of the Leningrad People’s Oversight Committee in the Latter Half of the 1960s: Prospects and Issues

Some of the courses of action of the Leningrad People’s Oversight Committee, which became the successor of the City Committee for Party and State Control in the mid-1960s, are described in the paper on the basis of archive sources and periodicals. The most effective approaches, forms and methods of fieldwork of both the Committee itself and individual authorities on the implementation of oversight functions, primarily in industrial production, are described in this paper. Attention is devoted to the analysis of the reasons for some blunders and omissions in organization and conduct of verification and oversight actions of Leningrad People’s Oversight Committee’s authorities in the second half of 1960s.

Vertical deadlock in public corporations

This work explores the problem of directorial board execution of the competency of voiding a contract with the registrar in public commercial corporate legal entities. The author provides a number of arguments that allow designating the aforementioned authority of the public joint-stock company as a deadlock situation. Based on the latter, classification is carried out on the deadlocks by level of their emergence into horizontal and vertical, describing characteristic traits of the vertical deadlock. The subject of this research is comprised on the norms that regulate the competence of the members of the oversight committee of corporations in civil law, pertinent law enforcement practice, as well as theoretical positions of various experts. The scientific novelty of this research consists in the analysis of the relevant practical issues associated with emergence of deadlock situations due to the activity of the directorial board. Detailed study and analysis is conducted on the case law of the courts dealing the problems of horizontal deadlock situations. The results of this work include proposed classification of deadlocks by the level of their emergence into horizontal and vertical; definitions of the horizontal and vertical deadlocks; examination of the mechanisms of resolution of horizontal deadlocks.

The legend of Saint Alan: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room

Ten years on from the 2008 global financial crisis, this article sets in dialogue two French treatments – by the novelist Mathieu Larnaudie and the philosopher Bernard Stiegler – of footage of the 2008 testimony of Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The article introduces and compares the concepts of ‘effondrement’ and ‘prolétarisation’ developed by the two writers in relation to the Greenspan hearing, and analyses how both understand the question of ideology as it emerges in the hearing. Informed by interviews conducted by the author with Larnaudie and Stiegler, the piece concludes by discussing the notion common to both writers that Greenspan is a ‘saint’ of the crisis.

Peran Panwaslu Kota Tangerang Dalam Pengawasan Pemilihan Kepada Daerah Provinsi Banten 2017

Panitia Pengawas Pemilu atau biasa disebut Panwaslu merupakan salah satu penyelenggara Pemilu yang memiliki tugas dan kewenangan untuk mengawasi pemilu, pada penyelenggaraan pemilihan Gubernur dan Wakil Gubernur di Banten 2017. Panwaslu Kota Tangerang sebagai salah satu penyelenggara pemilu memiliki tugas dan wewenang untuk mengawasi jalannya pemilihan diwilayah Kota Tangerang. Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan peran Panwaslu Kota Tangerang dalam Pengawasan Pemilihan Gubernur dan Wakil Gubernur Banten 2017. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif deskriptif dengan menggunakan teknik pengumpulan data berupa wawancara dan juga studi dokumen. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa Panwaslu Kota Tangerang dalam pengawasan pemilihan Gubernur dan Wakil Gubernur Banten 2017 telah melakukan tugasnya sesuai dengan peraturan perundang-undangan, namun dalam pelaksanaan tugasnya mengalami memiliki hambatan. Panwaslu mengawasi KPU, peserta pemilu dan pemilih dengan cara mengikuti setiap tahapan pemilihan yang ada dan juga Panwaslu memiliki lembar laporan yang akan menjadi acuan dalam melakukan segala tindakan atau memberikan rekomendasi kepada KPU. selain itu juga panwaslu mengawasi pemilih, dalam mengawasi pemilih itu sendiri seperti mengawasi daripada netralitas Aparatur Sipil Negara (ASN) Panwaslu juga mengingatkan serta memberikan peringatan terhadap ASN terlebih dengan memberikan sosialisasi tentang pentingnya netralitas ASN dalam pemilu, namun yang terjadi masih saja ditemukan pelanggaran yang dilakukan dan Panwaslu hanya dapat memberikan surat peringatan atau melakukan pemanggilan namun tidak dilakukan sanksi apapun terhadap pelanggar tersebut. The Election Oversight Committee or commonly called Panwaslu is one of the organizers of the Election who has the duty and authority to oversee the election, in organizing the election of Governor and Deputy Governor in Banten 2017. The Tangerang City Election Supervisory Committee as one of the election organizers has the duty and authority to oversee the election in the City Tangerang. The purpose of this research was to describe the role of Tangerang City Panwaslu in Supervising the Election of Banten Governor and Deputy Governor of 2017. The approach used in this study was descriptive qualitative research using data collection techniques in the form of interviews and document studies. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the Panwaslu of the City of Tangerang in the supervision of the election of the Governor of Banten and Deputy Governor of 2017 has carried out their duties in accordance with the laws and regulations, but in carrying out their duties they have obstacles. The Election Supervisory Committee oversees the KPU, election participants and voters by following each election stage and Panwaslu has a report sheet that will become a reference in taking all actions or providing recommendations to the KPU. besides that the Election Supervisory Committee oversees the voters, in overseeing the voters themselves such as overseeing the neutrality of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) Panwaslu also reminded and warned against ASN especially by providing socialization on the importance of ASN neutrality in elections, but violations were committed. Panwaslu can only give warning letters or make summons but no sanctions are imposed on the violator.Keywords : Elections, Supervision, Panwaslu, Role

Investigasi Pengaruh Luasnya Pengungkapan Sukarela atas Keberadaan Komite Pengawas Manajemen Pada Perusahaan Manufaktur Di Indonesia

This study investigated the impact the existence from the oversight committee on the extent from voluntary disclosure of manufacturing company in Indonesia. The oversight committee consist of risk management committee and nomination and remuneration committe. The existence from the oversight committee of manufacturing companies who have never been broad mandatory will have an influence on the differences in the voluntary disclosure between the company which one with a company that other. Data was collected used a documentation technique from the annual reports manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange period 2015 until 2017. Sampling method used purposive sampling. The number of samples were 81 companies each year. Multiple linear regression analysis is tools used in this model. The final results showed that in parsial the existence from the risk management committee (RMC) had a positive significant effect of the extent from voluntary disclosure. In simultan test showed that oversight committee had a positive significant effect on the extent of voluntary disclosure. Suggestions for further research is to be able to add the use of data collection method as questionnaires and interviews in knowing more information about the existence of an oversight committee.