Florida : Reducing Medical and Medication Errors for Pharmacy

Florida: Reducing Medical and Medication Errors for Pharmacy is organized by Biologix Solutions LLC.

Release Date: 03/17/2022
Expiration Date: 03/17/2025

Description:
This online independent study course (Reducing Medical Errors or Medication Errors for Pharmacy) covers causes of medical errors, common errors, how to prevent them, root cause analysis, and mandatory medical error reporting requirements.

Objectives:
Upon completion of this course (Reducing Medical Errors or Medication Errors for Pharmacy), pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to: 

• Discuss the prevalence of medical errors in United States.
• Describe the efforts to reduce medical errors at national and state level.
• List the incentives for healthcare providers and facilities to reduce medical errors.
• Discuss State’s effort to reduce and prevent medical errors and improve patient safety.
• List the most common types of medical errors occurs in healthcare settings.
• List factors that increases risk of medical errors.
• Discuss prevention of medical errors in special needs population.
• List recommendations on reducing or eliminating medical and medication errors.
• List steps in improving patient safety through prompt reporting of errors. Identify responsibilities of healthcare providers for prompt reporting of medical errors.
• Discuss JACHO’s patient safety goals.
• Identify changes that could be made to systems and processes (Root Cause Analysis) to improve performance and reduce risk of recurrence of the adverse events.
• Discuss role of electronic medical records (EMRs) and other information technology to improve communication and patient safety in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
• Discuss public education and awareness measures related to patient safety.