Pharmacy Professionals Must Address for Patient Safety
Tracking # 20-846423
$16.00
What you'll learn
At the end of this package, licensees will be able to:
Pharmacist Learning Objectives
- Review the pillars of safe medication administration and the definitions of medication errors
- Describe the common types of medication errors and their potential consequences
- Identify the roles of various governing bodies and state laws in promoting and ensuring medication safety
- Discuss the best practices in preventing medication errors
Pharmacy Technician Learning Objectives
- Differentiatemedication errors and adverse events
- Describe common causes of medication errors
- Identify various ways to avoid medication errors in community pharmacy
- Describe the role of pharmacy technicians in preventing medication error
Course overview
This 2-hour credit course is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education and approved by the Florida Board of Pharmacy. Medication errors can have serious consequences for patients. In fact, preventable adverse effects from medication errors are still a leading cause of death in the United States. Committing to medication safety is therefore essential to pharmaceutical care. Insight into the common causes and consequences of medication errors are important, so that pharmacists and pharmacy technicians can be better equipped to enhance patient safety and reduce pharmacy liability. This self-paced course is available online through any device with internet access. There are unlimited test attempts and no time limit for completion. Credits will be reported automatically to CE Broker if your license information is entered properly in your profile. Email info@achievece.com to have your credits reported to CPE Monitor.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Registered Pharmacy Technician
Michigan Board of Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Pharmacist Special Volunteer
Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Technician Special Volunteer
New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy
Certified Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacist
Disclosure statements
This activity was developed by AchieveCE free of any commercial support. Pete Kreckel, RPh has no actual or potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
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