Want to identify situations that increase the chances of medication errors? Interested in learning strategies for reducing the number of medication errors in your practice?

With increasingly large caseloads and shortages of nursing staff, it’s easy to overlook small errors in administering medication, especially if the change seemed insignificant or caused no harm. This course helps you understand the dangers of nursing medication errors and create strategies to minimize risk. As you gain solid insight on how to handle situations that may arise on a day-to-day basis, you will create a personalized plan for improvement within your practice.

For only $41, you will receive three weeks of unlimited, 24-hour access to the course materials, earning 6.9 contact hours. Sign up today and contribute to preventing nursing medication errors at your workplace!

Study About Reducing Nurse Medication Error in a Unique Online Format

• Utilize helpful features such as key terms, “Links to Knowledge” and visual/graphical aides as you explore the online course content.
• Solidify your knowledge by completing fun interactive exercises including multiple-choice and matching.
• Reflect on what you learn in the downloadable workbook, which includes short-answer and essay questions. Completion of the workbook may be necessary to meet board of nursing requirements.
• Evaluate your understanding of key concepts by completing the Post-Test. Score 75% or above to receive your contact hours!
• Guide yourself through the course and complete assignments at your leisure in the self-paced class format. Access the Medication Errors course syllabus here (PDF 208kb).

Protect Patient Safety

When errors seem insignificant, nurses may not report them. However, if nursing teams don’t address small errors, then it is difficult to develop strategies for preventing larger and potentially more dangerous med errors. By pinpointing the situations in which errors often occur, you will be able to address the processes that may need improvement within your practice, before a crisis occurs.

Come Away with New Strategies for Preventing Medication Errors

Master these course objectives:

• Recognize events and actions that lead to medication errors.
• Identify strategies to prevent risk exposure through appropriate nursing practices.
• Utilize strategies to address medication errors made by colleagues.
• Determine the role of system failure in medication error management within your practice.
• Analyze the adverse effects of medication errors on patients, facility, and the health care system.
• Initiate a personal improvement plan to prevent medication errors.

Online registration is easy and your three weeks of unlimited access begins immediately after you register. Sign up for Medication Errors: Detection and Prevention today!

More About Your Medication Errors Authors

Tonia Aiken is a nurse attorney and mediator. Former president of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys, she has been in private practice for 20 years representing nurses in disciplinary action. Aiken is also a national speaker and editor/contributing author for the textbooks Legal, Ethical and Political Issues in Nursing and Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Occupations, along with numerous other articles.

Julia Aucoin is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has been working in nursing professional development for over twenty years. As both an academic and a practice educator, she employs creative strategies to make learning fun and memorable.