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Medication Safety: Why Errors Occur and What RTs Can Do to Reduce the Risks

About This Course

The presentation is designed to provide participants with an appreciation of medication errors, impact of medication errors on patients/outcomes, monitoring requirements, and various methods to improve operations with regard to delivery safe and effective care.

Successful completion of this course requires a score of 70% on the post-test.

Original webcast date: August 4, 2015

This webcast is sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from Dräger Medical, Inc.

**Please note that this program requires the participant to view the entire video prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**

Seminar Objectives

Explain why medication errors occur

Describe how organizational culture impacts patient safety and how leaders can make a difference

Describe how poorly designed systems increase the possibility of errors

Describe how individual behavioral choices may increase or decrease the risk of making an error

Chapters

Speaker Information
  • Kevin McQueen MHA, RRT, CM