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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, the impact of medication errors on patients/outcomes, monitoring requirements, and various methods to improve operations concerning the delivery of safe and effective care.

Presenter

Kevin McQueen MHA, RRT, CM.

Successful completion of this course requires a score of 70% on the post-test. The course content you will be tested on is available as a PDF in the Resources section or Materials tab.

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

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