Safe Medication Practice هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

تفاصيل الدورة

This course provides an overview of the various current strategies used to create a safer environment in the management and administration of medications in the hospitals. It covers the type and causes of medication errors and strategies and ways to reduce such medication errors.

This programme aims to provide participants with the current strategies used to prevent harm to patients as a result of medication errors, medication management and usage in a hospital.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course aims to provide nurses with comprehensive knowledge on developing systems, strategies and practices for safe medication practices. It will cover the collaborative roles of the nurses in ensuring safe medication practices.

COURSE OUTLINE

How safe is Healthcare?

Medication Errors

• Definition
• Harm caused
• Extent and Seriousness
• Types
• Causes
• Where Medication occurs frequently

Barriers to Medication Safety

Impact of the latest Joint Commission International Hospital Accreditation Standards on Medication Management and Usage in a Hospital

International Patient Safety Goals related to Medications

• Prevent Wrong Patient Identity
• Taking Accurate Verbal Medication Orders
• Manage Risks of High Alert Medications
• Prevent Healthcare / Hospital Acquired Infections
• Prevent Patient Falls

Hazardous Medications

Collaborative Role of Pharmacist and Nurses and Patient Education – One of the Key Strategies in Reducing Medication Errors

Patient Education: My Patient, My Partner in Preventing Medication Errors

Learning from Errors – Using Cause & Effect Diagrams

Medication Safety Videos

Group Discussions and Presentations

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Nurses

CERTIFICATE AWARDED

A “Certificate of Attendance” will be awarded by Parkway College.