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Reducing medication errors in nursing practice
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Course description
The aim of this module is to provide insight into factors that contribute to medication errors, and which can result in poor patient safety outcomes.
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Learning aims and intended outcomes
- List potential risks that contribute to medication errors
- Explain how a number of unrelated risks, when allowed to coexist, may result in adverse events in the delivery of health care
- Discuss ways to limit the risk of medication errors in your practice team
- Reflect on contributions that could be made towards the development of a safe reporting environment for fostering the growth of knowledge and achieving strategies that minimise the potential for medication errors
- Create a list of resources that promote active involvement in the prevention of medication errors and contribute to safe practice
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Errors and contributing factors
- Organisational safety culture
- Interruptions and distractions
- Shift-work length, patient acuity and workload
- Access to information and guidelines
- Environmental factors
- Drug calculation and administration
- Understanding and reporting errors
- Failure to follow policy or guidelines
- Preventing confusion
- Conclusions
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Syllabus
- Introduction
- Errors and contributing factors
- Organisational safety culture
- Interruptions and distractions
- Shift-work length, patient acuity and workload
- Access to information and guidelines
- Environmental factors
- Drug calculation and administration
- Understanding and reporting errors
- Failure to follow policy or guidelines
- Preventing confusion
- Conclusions
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