Medication Safety

Introduction

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This course provides healthcare professionals with a practical and structured approach to medication safety across the entire medication-use process. It focuses on identifying and preventing medication errors, managing adverse drug reactions, handling high-alert and look-alike/sound-alike medications, and ensuring safe prescribing, dispensing, storage, and documentation practices. The course also emphasizes effective medication reconciliation and aims to address its objectives in alignment with CBAHI standards, ensuring that all key requirements are implemented effectively to enhance patient safety.

Objectives

1. Define medication errors and describe common causes, types, and strategies to prevent them within
the medication-use process.
2. Identify and classify adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and explain appropriate steps for monitoring,
reporting, and managing these events to ensure patient safety.
3. Recognize high-alert medications and apply recommended safety precautions to minimize the risk of
serious harm associated with their use.
4. Distinguish between look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medications and implement effective measures to
reduce selection and dispensing errors related to similar names or packaging.
5. Apply prohibited or unsafe abbreviation policies to ensure clear, accurate, and standardized
medication documentation and communication.
6. Identify potential drug–drug interactions and use appropriate tools and resources to assess, prevent,
and manage clinically significant interactions.
7. Demonstrate proper medication storage practices, including temperature control, light protection,
segregation of high-risk items, and maintenance of storage standards.
8. Perform accurate medication reconciliation at transitions of care to identify discrepancies, ensure
continuity of therapy, and prevent medication-related problems.

Main theme

The course is delivered through pre-recorded video clips, designed to be concise and easy to follow. Participants can access the content at their own pace.
Learning will be assessed through a pre- and post-course exam to measure knowledge improvement and understanding of key concepts.
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