PPT-1 Medication Error Prevention

Dr Vicky Framil DNP ARNP ANPBC Clinical Assistant Professor Graduate Nursing Department Clinical Manager at John H Peavy Health Center 2 What is a medication error Any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional patient or consumer. Overview and Review of Errors. Created by Covenant Health. Medication Management Safety Team. January 2015. Learning Objectives. Be able to define what High Alert Medications (HAMs) are. Understand the risks and errors associated with HAMs . Megan Popielarczyk, MPH, BSN, RN. Public Health Fellow, Safe Kids Georgia. 1. Objectives. Examine the use of existing resources to build statewide capacity. Promoting partnership through programs. Feasibility of statewide initiatives. Preventing and . Responding. DSN Kevin Dobi, MS, . APrn. Copyright © 2014 by Mosby, an imprint of Elsevier Inc.. C. hapter. 5. Medication errors. Institute of Medicine studies (1999, 2006). Adverse drug reactions. Claire Thomas MSc. Agenda. Update on the . recommissioning. of the service – key changes. Team Based Learning approach to improve knowledge of falls risk & prevention. Update from Age . UK . Suman Jana. 1. , . Yuan Kang. 1. , Samuel Roth. 2. , Baishakhi Ray. 3. 1. Columbia University. 2. Ohio Northern University. 3. University of Virginia. Incorrect error handling. : a major source. . of. Risk Reduction . How do you define a medication error?. “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or client harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, client, or consumer.”. 2017. Course purpose. To provide an overview of medical errors in today’s health care system and to identify the incidence and causes of medical errors and the risk factors disposing to medical errors, and to provide strategies to prevent medical errors in the healthcare setting, including by patients.. Module 12. Medication Errors. The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention defines a medication error as follows: any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of health care professional, patient, or consumer. By. Tsneem. . Tagelsir. . Khider. Medication safety. What is “medication error”?. Error . . Failure. of a planned action to be completed as intended. Medication error . Any . preventable event . Philip A Routledge. James Coulson. All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre. Cardiff, Wales, UK. Case Study. A 44 year-old woman had a urinary tract infection and was prescribed the antibiotic nitrofurantoin for 10 days. Two weeks later she noticed numbness, pins and needles and tingling of the lower limbs up to mid-thigh. She was examined by a neurologist three months later, who stated that this was likely to have been a peripheral neuropathy related to the previous course of nitrofurantoin. She is referred to you (as a clinical pharmacologist) for advice.. Ooty. Medication Errors. “Any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of healthcare professionals, patients or consumer”. Rationale. medication use has become increasingly complex in recent times. medication error is a major cause of preventable patient harm. as future doctors, you will have an important role in making medication use safe. Andrew Smith, Lancaster, UK. On behalf of the ESAIC Patient Safety and Quality Committee and the EBA. Adverse drug event ADE. “. An adverse drug event, injuries resulting from medical intervention. PrEP Counseling Center. What is Medication Adherence?. The World Health Organization defines medication adherence as the degree to which the person’s behavior corresponds with the agreed recommendations from a health care provider..