Medication Errors: Mastering Understanding and Prevention

Patient safety is paramount in healthcare. A key component of this is the systematic approach to medication use, which includes:

• Prescribing: The initial stage of choosing and ordering medication.
• Transcribing & Documenting: Recording and verifying the prescription.
• Dispensing: Providing the medication as prescribed.
• Administering: Ensuring correct patient administration.
• Monitoring: Tracking medication effects on the patient.

Essential Safety Requirements (ESR) Explained

The Essential National Requirements for Patient Safety contain 20 stringent standards that hospitals must uphold.

These are fundamental for protecting patients from healthcare-related mishaps.

Notably, medication errors are a critical safety benchmark within these standards.

Significance of Accurate Reporting

Accurate reporting of medication errors is non-negotiable for patient safety. Additionally, tracking adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is pivotal in understanding pharmacovigilance patterns.

Why Enroll in This Course?

• In-depth Understanding: Gain a comprehensive grasp of the medication use process and learn to identify various medication error categories.
• Safety Protocols: Learn about the mandatory Essential Safety Requirements every hospital must follow.
• Medication Error Reporting: Understand how to effectively classify and report medication errors.
• ADR Insight: Delve deep into Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR), understanding their severity and the reporting process.
• Pharmacovigilance Fundamentals: Recognise the importance of pharmacovigilance and its essential resources.
• Global Perspective: Discover top national and international pharmacovigilance organisations.

Optimising Pharmacovigilance: Strategies to Optimising Medication Errors

This course equips you with the tools to champion patient safety by minimising medication errors in the healthcare sector.

Enrol to become an active advocate for improved pharmacovigilance practices.

Join now to enhance patient safety and fortify your healthcare delivery skills!

• Determine the critical medication use process processes, medication errors and categories of medication errors.
• Discuss the Essential Safety Requirements that have to be available for every hospital.
• Define and classify the medication errors and the steps of the medication error reporting and medication dispensing errors.
• illustrate the severity of the Adverse Drug Reactions “ADR” and the reporting process for ADR and medication errors.
• Define the importance of pharmacovigilance and resources for it.
• Nominate important National and International Pharmacovigilance organisations all around.

Dr. Rasha Abdelsalam

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Dr Rasha is the CEO of FADIC. She was in Tanta university hospital, Egypt. In 2013, she received TQM from an American university, BCPS, CPHQ, and M.Sc. in Clinical Pharmacy. She received certification from SIDP. She obtained the add qualification from the American Board in infectious disease. Leaded MM CBAHI Saudi accreditation. Established stewardship committee and implementation in MCH, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

She shared in item exam writing for BCIDP Exam. She shared as a reviewer in infectious diseases PSAP. Authorship for published around 20 papers. One paper about the vision of 2030 for the general pharmaceutical department in Saudi Arabia. She received TLC certification from ACCP academy. Moreover, a personal, professional, stewardship leadership, and research consultant. Share in strategic planning, hospital accreditation, and stewardship education.