• Activity INFORMATION

  Overview

  Medication safety remains a top concern for pharmacies and regulators alike. Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians find themselves daily in situations whose outcome teeters between success and tragedy. Understanding the framework for medication safety, then, is paramount.  In this session, multiple medication safety models are examined within the context of the community pharmacy and beyond. Avenues for error reporting are explored, along with industry best practices.

  This course has been approved to meet the 2.0 hour requirement for medication error prevention training for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians by the Florida Board of Pharmacy.

  
  

  Handouts

  • Slide Document :   24046H05_2pp.pdf Download

  • Slide Document :   24046H05_6pp.pdf Download

  Financial Support By

  PharmCon

• Learning OBJECTIVES

  Pharmacist

  Recognize effective implementation strategies of the medication safety framework in different pharmacy settings

  Cite different options for error reporting

  Discuss different frameworks and models for medication safety

  Recognize different medication safety best practices for community pharmacies

  Pharmacy Technician

  Cite different options for error reporting

  Recognize different medication safety best practices for community pharmacies

  Discuss different frameworks and models for medication safety

  Recognize effective implementation strategies of the medication safety framework in different pharmacy settings

  Nurse

  Cite different options for error reporting

  Recognize different medication safety best practices for community pharmacies

  Recognize effective implementation strategies of the medication safety framework in different pharmacy settings

  Discuss different frameworks and models for medication safety

• Activity ACCREDITATION

  Activity Type

  Application

  CE Broker

  20-1159736

  Universal Activity Number

  Pharmacist 0798-0000-24-046-H05-P
  Pharmacy Technician 0798-0000-24-046-H05-T
  Nurse 0798-0000-24-046-H05-N
  

  PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

  PharmCon is an approved course provider for continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing. PharmCon is also recognized by the California Board of Nursing as a provider of nursing programs.

  In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation.

• Activity INSTRUCTION

  Faculty

  Joseph  LaRochelle, PharmD, BCPPS, FCCP, FNAP, FPPA Coleman Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Vice Chair Division of Clinical and Administrative Sciences, Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy Clinical Professor, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

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