EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
The percentage of Americans consuming medications have increased over the years. Seventy percent of individuals in the U.S. take at least one medication per day, and more than half of all Americans take two. There is at least one death in the U.S. daily as a result of a medication error, and approximately1.3 million people annually are injured due to medication errors. Each year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives more than 100,000 reports of medication errors. Medication errors occur in many settings, including pharmacies, hospitals, and patient homes. According to the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, more than seven million Americans have been impacted by medication errors on an annual basis.
As a part of the biennial renewal, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are required to complete a two (2) hour Florida Board of Pharmacy approved course on Medication Errors. The course must contain the following components: (a) root-cause analysis; (b) error reduction and prevention; (c) patient safety. The two-hour program may be applied towards the thirty-hour continuing education requirement for pharmacists and the twenty-hour continuing education requirement for technicians. (64B16-26.103)
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this activity, pharmacists will be able to: Define elements of a Continuous Quality Improvement Program (CQI); List common types of medication errors; Describe Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent errors; Identify techniques to reduce medication errors by using CQI; Recognize how quality improvement programs improve patient safety in pharmacy health care systems; Outline the Florida requirements for creating a CQI that will help prevent quality related events.
At the completion of this activity, technicians will be able to: Define Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI); Describe Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent errors; List most common medication errors; Describe Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent errors; Identify techniques to reduce medication errors by using CQI; Recognize how quality improvement programs improve patient safety in pharmacy health care systems; Outline the Florida requirements for creating a CQI that will help prevent quality related events.
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