Session 3A: Patient Safety: Preventing Medication Errors -

This seminar fulfills the medication errors requirement for states that require medication errors continuing education.

Date: 10/8/2010 Check-In and Breakfast:
 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Educational Session: 8:00 am - 11:00 am

Joseph Bova, RPh. Director of Continuing Education at Long Island University- Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy-in Brooklyn Pharmacist and Former Owner, Cary's Pharmacy, Dobbs Ferry, NY New York State Board of Pharmacy Former Chairman and Former Chairman of Committee on Disciplinary Process, Member of the Technology Committee, Member of the Committee on Rules and Regulations Revisions, Member of the Part II Examination Committee

Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:

  1. Identify a working definition of medication errors
  2. Identify the different causes of medication errors in the Community pharmacy workplace
  3. Develop strategies to improve systems as a key way to reduce medication errors
  4. Evaluate errors and identify if they are caused by improper prescribing, dispensing or administration
  5. Evaluate one state’s attempt to analyze errors and a non-punitive reporting system
  6. Recognize the importance of patient counseling in the prevention of medication errors in the pharmacy.

  7. Evaluate procedures regarding the handling of medication errors in the pharmacy.

  8. Discuss Root Cause Analysis (RCA)and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI).
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