Pharmacy Law 104: Meets the requirement for a 2 hour medication errors continuing education program as required each biennium by the Florida Board of Pharmacy, or may be used as general CE credit.

2 Contact Hours

Course Description

Reviews pharmacist and pharmacy responsibilities for medication error prevention. Describes techniques for the promotion of patient safety in pharmacy. Discusses continuous quality improvement as an application of root cause analysis and failure mode and effects analysis.

Purpose

To meet the continuing education requirement of two hours in medication error prevention every two years.

Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Lecture Handout
• Online Lecture: Medication Error Prevention
• A Systems View of Pharmacy Error
• Techniques for Pharmacy Error Prevention
• Developing and Implementing a CQI Program
• Organizing a Pharmacy’s Workflow
• Handling the Reported Error
• Online 20 Question Multiple Choice Exam