Medication Administration & Errors
Course Details:
- Category: Facility Management
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Target Audience: All Employees; Clinical Employees
Course Overview: All healthcare providers and employees who
have the responsibility of prescribing and administering medications to
patients must know how to prevent medication errors. This training includes information
to minimize medication errors from the Centers for Disease and Control (CDC),
Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), Safe Injection Practices
Coalition (SIPC), World Health Organization (WHO), and National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Training Includes:
- Defining Medicinal Drugs
- Harms and Benefits of Medications
Rights of Medication Administration
- Right Patient
- Right Drug
- Right Time
- Right Route
- Rights Dose
- Nurse's Role
- Routes of Medication
- Types of Medication Errors
- Five Stages of Medication Process
- Patient Risk Factors for Errors
- Adverse Drug Events
- Safe Prescribing Tips