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Medication & Pharmacy Practice
Medication Safety: High-Alert Drugs and Error Prevention
The medicines that cause the most serious harm, and the defences that stop them.
professional210 min6 lessons
What you'll learn
- Identify high-alert medications in a described formulary list
- Locate the error point in a described medication incident
- Differentiate a genuine independent double-check from a confirmatory one
- Apply reconciliation to a described admission or discharge
- Recognise look-alike sound-alike risk in a given pair of products
- Plan an appropriate response to a medication error including staff support
Course content
6 modules · 6 lessons
1. Where Medication Harm Comes From
- Where Medication Harm Comes FromPreview35m
2. The High-Alert List
- The High-Alert List35m
3. Look-Alike, Sound-Alike
- Look-Alike, Sound-Alike35m
4. Double-Checks and Devices
- Double-Checks and Devices35m
5. Transitions of Care
- Transitions of Care35m
6. After an Error
- After an Error35m