Hours of learning: 5

Publication date: 2007

Aim
To provide doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists with the background information about medication-related patient safety and the actions and tools necessary to promote and develop safety in the use of medicines within their practice.

Intended learning outcomes
After completing this course you will be able to:

• Define what is meant by a medication incident;
• Describe the developments of patient safety priorities and the role of medicines governance in healthcare;
• Promote the reporting and investigating of medication incidents as a means to improving patient safety;
• Identify potential sources of medication incidents that can occur;
• List commonly used high-risk medicines;
• Develop strategies to reduce the occurrence of medication incidents in your practice.