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Medical and Medication Error Prevention
Build your expertise in healthcare safety. This course highlights error types, misdiagnosed conditions, and system-based strategies to protect patients and enhance organizational quality.
Enhance healthcare safety with our comprehensive Medical and Medication Error Prevention course, designed to equip allied health professionals with the knowledge and skills to prevent errors, improve diagnostic accuracy, and implement effective safety systems for optimal patient outcomes.
About this course
Increase your expertise in managing healthcare safety with our in-depth course focusing on medical and medication errors, from common slip-ups to serious diagnostic inaccuracies. Understand the gravity of medication safety through an overview of error types, root causes, and preventive strategies. Learn about the most misdiagnosed conditions across specialties and master practical approaches to crafting effective safety systems within healthcare settings, ultimately fostering better outcomes for patients and organizations.
What you will learn
At the completion of this activity, healthcare providers will be able to:
- Define medication error, adverse event, sentinel event, negligence, root cause, near miss, and latent error.
- Explain the types and classifications of medication error.
- Discuss the causes & factors that lead to medication error.
- Characterize the impact of medication error on patient safety, health professionals, and healthcare outcomes.
- Differentiate the root causes of medication errors.
- Explain the multidimensional approach in the prevention of medication error.
- Explain the root causes and contributing factors of the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions in different medical specialties.
At the completion of this activity, assistants, aids, support staff, and pharmacy technicians will be able to:
- Describe types of medication errors
- Describe some causes that lead to medication errors
Course content
Course details
Accreditations
This course has been reviewed and approved through the rigorous standards of leading accrediting organizations, ensuring your continuing education credits are formally recognized and respected across professions and states.
ASWB
Accredited for social work continuing education
APA
Accredited for psychology continuing education
ACPE
Accredited for pharmacy continuing education
ANCC
Accredited for nursing continuing education
COPE
Accredited for optometry continuing education
ADA
Accredited for dental continuing education
ACCME
Accredited for physician continuing medical education
Additional Information
- Automatic reporting to CE Broker for participating states
- Instant certificate generation upon course completion
- Credits accepted for license renewal
- Meets state requirements for continuing education
Course Faculty
Learn from leading experts who bring their real-world experience and evidence-based practices to this comprehensive training.
Amy Adkins-Dwivedi
Advanced practice nurse with expertise education, and infection‑control in community health settings.
Nicole Good
Nicole is a Registered Nurse with 13 years of experience who is board certified as a Health and Wellness Nurse Coach and as a Holistic Nurse. As a Certified Learning and Development Specialist, she is passionate about transforming healthcare education to improve outcomes and experiences.
Disclosure
Disclosures
PACE requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to PACE policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
- Amy Adkins-Dwivedi, MS, APRN
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose - Nicole Good, RN, BSN, HWNC-BC, HN-BC
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
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Real-World Experience
Combined 27+ years of direct patient care experience with diverse HIV populations in various healthcare settings.
Education Focus
Dedicated to training healthcare professionals and have developed evidence-based curricula for stigma reduction.
Patient Advocacy
Strong advocates for patient-centered care and have worked extensively with HIV advocacy organizations.
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Product Details
- 100% Online. Complete on your time
- Courses meet state, department, and board license requirements
- Instant Completion. Certificate sent to you directly
- Reporting on your behalf to CE Broker
Satisfaction guaranteed or full refund
Requirements & Compliance
This course meets your continuing education requirements across multiple states and professions, ensuring you stay compliant with the latest regulations.
Requirements
This course is regularly updated to ensure compliance with current state and federal requirements.
Accreditations
ASWB
Association of Social Work Boards
APA
American Psychological Association
ACPE
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
ANCC
American Nurses Credentialing Center
COPE
Council on Optometric Practitioner Education
ADA
American Dental Association
ACCME
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
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