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ForwardPreventing Medication Errors - Saving One Life at a Time
Overview
Medication errors are a common issue in healthcare. Methods to reduce errors continue to improve and get better but knowledge is not shared as often with pharmacists. The goal of the CE is to close this gap and expand techniques to prevent medication errors.
Improving pharmacist recognition and prevention of medication errors benefits the health systems and healthcare teams.
Target Audience
Pharmacist
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the difference between a medication error and a close call or near miss
2. Evaluate inpatient and outpatient medication errors
3. List methods to prevent medication errors
Program
Medication errors are a common issue in healthcare. Methods to reduce errors continue to improve and get better but knowledge is not shared as often with pharmacists. The goal of the CE is to close this gap and expand techniques to prevent medication errors.
Improving pharmacist recognition and prevention of medication errors benefits the health systems and healthcare teams.
Venue
Faculty
Vicky Shah, PharmD, BCPS
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 1.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.