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ForwardSHY: Improving Patient Safety Medication Management
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
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 COI Disclosure Form_12 01 15_youschak.pdf | 238.94 KB |
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.
Frances Youschak, PharmD, BCPS
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.