About This Course
The presentation is designed to provide participants with an appreciation of medication errors, impact of medication errors on patients/outcomes, monitoring requirements, and various methods to improve operations with regard to delivery safe and effective care.
Successful completion of this course requires a score of 70% on the post-test.
Original webcast date: August 4, 2015
This webcast is sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from Dräger Medical, Inc.
**Please note that this program requires the participant to view the entire video prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**
Explain why medication errors occur
Describe how organizational culture impacts patient safety and how leaders can make a difference
Describe how poorly designed systems increase the possibility of errors
Describe how individual behavioral choices may increase or decrease the risk of making an error
Chapters
Medication Safety: Why Errors Occur and What RTs Can Do to Reduce the Risks


Speaker Information
- Kevin McQueen MHA, RRT, CM