“Medication Safety Pearls”
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HealthTrust presents...”Medication Safety Pearls”
Medication Safety is a fundamental part of all pharmacy practice throughout all practice settings. In these pearls, the speakers will identify best practices through evidence-based mechanisms and outline ways facilities can improve process with a focus on medication safety. Processes from various organizations will be identified, opportunities outlined and best practices suggested for the following: promethazine education/prompts, intravenous anticoagulant high risk drug documentation in the electronic health record, hospital-wide RSI kit (including proper storage with addressing concerns) and drug recall process standardization.
Learning Objectives for pharmacists and nurses | At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Evaluate the current functionality in their electronic health records and automated dispensing cabinets to identify opportunities for improvements surrounding the safe administration of promethazine
- Identify necessary steps to ensure medication safety while implementing standardized programmable infusion pump guardrail libraries
- Locate opportunities within their electronic health record for documentation surrounding intravenous anticoagulant medication administration documents and opportunities to improve this medication safety practice
Learning Objectives for pharmacist technicians | At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Evaluate functionality in their automated dispensing cabinets to identify opportunities for improvements surrounding safe administration of promethazine
- Describe strategies for technicians to assist pharmacists in mitigating risk surrounding the administration of IV anticoagulant administration
Presenters:
Heather Ellis, PharmD | Medication Safety Pharmacist | North Florida Regional Medical Center
Christine Corsberg, PharmD, BCPS | Division Director of Clinical Pharmacy | HCA, North Florida Division
Target Audience: Pharmacists, pharmacist technicians & nurses
Continuing Education Information: 1.0 contact hours approved for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs. Belmont University College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The ACPE Universal Activity Numbers for this activity are 0863-9999-19-080-L05-P and 0863-9999-19-080-L05-T. The activity is approved for 1 hour (.1 CEUs) of continuing education credit to pharmacists and pharmacist technicians who attend the webinar and complete the online evaluation.
California Board of Registered Nursing. Pfiedler is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP14944, pending for 1 contact hour.
Note about CE credit: If you plan to obtain credit, stay until the end of the presentation to receive the verification code you will need to obtain your continuing education credit. A reminder that CE credit is individual. No group credit is available. Each person must register for this session and attend the webinar for 40 minutes or longer in order to receive an email after the event with instructions on how to apply for continuing education credit. Please do not share the code or forward the email you receive to others who did not actually attend the program. If they are not able to be verified on our webinar provider reports and registration list they will not receive credit. Also, please note: If you are joining only by phone, you will not be eligible for credit. You must also log in and join the visual portion of the webinar to be part of our CE provider-required reporting.
Effective June 1, 2019: Belmont College of Pharmacy will no longer issue paper/electronic statements of credit for CE activities. ACPE (our accrediting body) policy states paper and/or electronic statements of credit may no longer be distributed directly to learners as proof of ACPE credit. The official record of credit may be located in the learner’s e-profile in CPE Monitor at www.nabp.net.
A participant, sponsor, faculty member or other individual wanting to file a grievance with respect to any aspect of a program sponsored or co-sponsored by the Belmont COP may contact the Dean of Belmont University College of Pharmacy in writing at david.gregory@belmont.edu. The grievance will be reviewed and a response will be returned within 45 days of receiving the written statement. If not satisfied, an appeal to the Dean of the College of Pharmacy can be made for a second level of review.
