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If you’re trying to reduce medication errors stop right now, you’re thinking about this the wrong way around. You want to reduce the harm that medication errors (or more correctly medication incidents) cause, and the only way you’ll do this is by learning from these incidents. With success, you’ll see your reported incidents go up, giving you more opportunities to learn.
But the harm they cause should go down.
This course will teach you how manage, report and learn from medication incidents. It will enable you to provide the correct response to Safeguarding Teams and the Care Quality Commission. It will enable you to reduce the chance of harm from medication incidents occurring by learning from them.
3.5 hours
Managers, nurses and seniors who have a role in managing/investigation medication errors
Two years (click here for details)
In addition to the handout, you will be sent a free electronic copy of our medicines incident form and investigation protocols
CQC Key Lines of Enquiry S4: How are people’s medicines managed so that they receive them safely?
CQC Key Lines of Enquiry S6: Are lessons learned and improvements made when things go wrong?
Skills for care
By the end of the course you will be able to:
We will study actual medicines incidents that have occurred in your organisation in the case studies.
