Drug Safety, Medication Error
Medication use has become increasingly complex in recent times. Medication error is a major cause of preventable patient harm. Medication errors can happen anywhere, any time. It has a huge impact on patients and their families.
What you’ll learn
- Define side effects, adverse drug reactions, medication error, near miss and adverse drug event.
- Understand the scale of medication error.
- Understand the steps involved in a patient using medication and how errors can occur in each step.
- Identify factors that contribute to medication errors.
- Describe practices that been shown to reduce errors.
Course Content
- Introduction and terminologies –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- Where do medication errors occur in the medication use process? –> 1 lecture • 5min.
- Why medication errors occur? Factors that contributes to medication errors –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- Steps to reduce medication errors –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- Ensuring safety at each step of the medication use process –> 1 lecture • 6min.
- Conclusion –> 1 lecture • 1min.
Requirements
Medication use has become increasingly complex in recent times. Medication error is a major cause of preventable patient harm. Medication errors can happen anywhere, any time. It has a huge impact on patients and their families.
Through this course, you will be able to:
- Define side effects, adverse drug reactions, adverse drug event, medication error and near miss
- Understand the scale of medication error
- Understand the steps involved in a typical medication use process and how errors can occur in each step
- Identify factors that contribute to medication errors
- Describe practices that been shown to reduce errors
There are 5 sections to this course, namely:
- Introduction and terminologies
- Where do medication errors occur in the medication use process?
- Why do medication errors occur? Factors that contributes to medication errors
- Steps to reduce medication errors
- Ensuring safety at each step of the medication use process
Quizzes are specially made to ensure learners understand the concepts well. Questions are also specially crafted to reflect situations in real practice. Through this course, I am confident that you will become a safer healthcare professional and contribute to building a safer healthcare system. Join us on this journey as we strive to make healthcare safer for all!