Patient safety: medication incidents
Hours of learning: 3
Publication date: January 2014
Aim
To promote the safer use of medicines in clinical practice through a better understanding of why medication incidents happen.
Intended learning outcomes
At the end of this course you should be able to:
- define what is meant by a medication incident
- describe medication-related errors and their impact on the health service
- promote the reporting and investigating of medication incidents as a means to improving patient safety
- identify the causes of errors and medication incidents in practice
- list the role and functions of the organisations established to reduce risk
- promote staff education and safe systems of practice as effective means of reducing medication errors.