This course aims to boost attention to the matter of medication errors highlighting the factors which will cause them also because the collaborative measures that ought to be taken to mitigate the danger of medication errors.

Course Overview:

Errors related to the utilization of medicinal products are a serious public-health burden and should happen when patients receive healthcare services for preventive, diagnostic, curative or rehabilitative purposes. It’s been estimated that 18.7 - 56% of all adverse events that occur among hospitalized patients result from medication errors that might be preventable. Medication errors are thus a priority in the least stages of health healthcare delivery.
All Healthcare professionals through their daily clinical practice have an important role in ensuring medication safety. this is often starting from taking measures
to minimize or prevent medication errors arising from the prescribing, storing, dispensing, preparation or administration of a medicinal product, to counseling & advising patients on safe use, recording & reporting medication errors should they occur also as clinical management the adverse
outcome resulting from medication errors.
This course aims to boost attention to the matter of medication errors highlighting the factors which will cause them also because the collaborative measures that ought to be taken to mitigate the danger of medication errors.

Learning Objective

• Define a medication error
• List the stages of the medication use process in which they participate
• Identify medication error causes and contributing factors
• Describe prevention strategies of medication errors
• Accurately calculate medication error rate
• Describe Remedies available to the state for penalty of a deficiency
• State the importance of internal and external error reporting

Eligibility Criteria

Nurses

Doctors

Pharmacist

Any healthcare Worker

Course Duration

1 Day

Course Content

• Medication Error
• FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO MEDICATION ERRORS
• HUMAN-RELATED FACTORS
• Style Related factors
• Medication Related Errors
• The 6-R’s
• Types of Medication Errors
• CATEGORIZATION OF MEDICATION ERRORS:
• How to Calculate Medication Error Quality Indicator Data as per NABH
• Medication Error Reporting Form

Course Highlights

Program pedagogy which includes Online Classes, and Post Course Exam.

• Program materials developed by experts
• Each Lesson culminating into a qualifying online exam

Learning Outcome

Upon completion of this course, Participants will be able to:

• Define medical errors
• Describe the causes of medical errors.
• Review the most common medical errors and strategies to prevent them.
• Fill Medication Error Reporting Form
• Calculate Medication Quality Indicator Data as per NABH Standards
• Identify Look Alike and Sound Alike Medications
• Perform Internal and External Reporting

Evaluations and Grading

• Evaluations will collate candidate performance based on post training Assessment, and Lesson End Assessment.

Certification

At the end of the program the student will be awarded with Certification from Skill Sathi.

Amount: 999.00

Discount: 999.00

Payable: 0.00