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From Psychology to Regulations:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Improve Medication Safety
Program Overview
This program addresses the need for pharmacists to differentiate and evaluate the route cause of medication errors and using a systems approach to develop interventions to help prevent future medication errors.
Presentation
The program can be completed by viewing the PowerPoint® slide show (using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 97 or later), answering the post-test questions and completing the program evaluation on line. Statements of credit can be printed after successful completion of the program.
Program Information
- Target Audience
All Registered Pharmacists.
This program is not accredited for Pharmacy Technicians.
- Learning Objectives
After participating in this program, the pharmacist should be able to:
- Distinguish the different sources of errors in the medication use process
- Using a systems approach, evaluate the sources of medication errors at a given pharmacy site
- Describe current and future methods of reducing different types of medication errors
- Identify resources to help develop site-specific assessments and interventions to improve medication use
Program Faculty
- Faculty Disclosure Statement
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Criteria for Quality and Interpretive Guidelines, Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy requires that faculty members disclose any relationship (e.g., shareholder, recipient of research grant, consultant, or member of an advisory committee) that the faculty may have with commercial companies whose products or services may be mentioned in their presentations. The existence of these relationships is provided for the information of participants and should not be assumed to have an adverse impact on faculty presentations.
- Faculty and Disclosure Information
Nathaniel M. Rickles, PharmD, PhD, BCPP
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Northeastern University School of Pharmacy
- Has no actual or potential conflict in relation to this program.
- Does not plan to discuss on discussing unlabeled/investigational uses of a commercial product.
Program Support
The fee for this program is $25.00.
Continuing Education Accreditation Information
Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy is approved by the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Pharmacists successfully participating in this program will receive a statement of credit for two (2) contact hours (0.2 CEUs) in pharmacy law. Statements of Credit may be printed on-line after successful completion of the learning assessment (70%).
ACPE #027-000-05-084-H03. Initial release date December 1, 2005, Expires December 1, 2008.
Further Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Disclaimer
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