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ForwardSHY: Improving Patient Safety Medication Management
Overview
Subjects will vary for each presentation within the series. In general, each presentation will review current pharmacotherapeutic management recommendation for a given disease state. The goal of the series is to ensure that our pharmacists practice consistent, evidence-based pharmacy.
ACPE: 0481-0000-19-097-L04-P
Target Audience
The target audience consists of pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students
Learning Objectives
- Offer structured support of professional development for pharmacists
- Incentivize pharmacists to engage in professional development sessions by providing continuing education credit for attendance
- Review current pharmacotherapeutic management recommendations for various disease states
- Emphasize knowledge gained during presentations through summary slides, questions and/or patient cases
- Ensure that residency preceptors are aware of current evidence-based pharmacy recommendations
- Discuss the Joint Commission's medication management standards
- Identify look-alike sound-alike drugs, high alert, and hazardous medications and recognize strategies to prevent error
- Define the definitions used in patient safety including medication errors (ME), adverse drug reactions (ADRs), and adverse drug events (ADEs,) and explain the reporting and documentation process
- Describe the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
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 COI Disclosure Form_12 01 15_youschak.pdf | 238.94 KB |
Program
Subjects will vary for each presentation within the series. In general, each presentation will review current pharmacotherapeutic management recommendation for a given disease state. The goal of the series is to ensure that our pharmacists practice consistent, evidence-based pharmacy.
Venue
Faculty
Frances Youschak, PharmD, BCPS
Accreditation
The University of Pittsburgh Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
The assigned universal program number(s) is: 0481-0000-19-097-L04-P
Available Credit
- 0.50 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.