A Pharmacy Professional’s Role in Improving Patient Safety

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Discuss the prevalence of medication errors and their impact on patient safety.
2. Recognize that medication misuse is a major threat to the safety of a patient.
3. Identify options a pharmacist has to improve medication access for patients.
4. List the different ways a pharmacist can provide health wellness services to their patients.
5. Describe how pharmacists can help evaluate the health of their patient and make the proper referrals.
6. Discuss the significance of assessing medication appropriateness prior to dispensing.
7. Recognize the benefit of providing additional information and resources to patients.
8. Name the methods available for improving medication adherence.
9. Outline available programs to deliver medication therapy management services to patients.
10. Identify the ways pharmacists help to make a patient’s transition of care seamless through proper medication management.
11. Describe the value to patient’s safety from having pharmacists report adverse events.
12. Recognize the advances pharmacists have made in increasing safety for opioid users.
13. Discuss the reasons to design and maintain a proper Quality Improvement Program.
    Identify the responsibilities of the pharmacist in medication safety during Drug Clinical Trials.
14. Define “Just Culture” and how it is directly linked to patient safety.
15. Describe the Community/Ambulatory Care ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Newsletter and how it is improving medication error prevention.

Faculty: Elvia Sellountos, PharmD, RPh
The CE faculty, reviewers and planning committee members have all reported no relationships with ineligible companies in relation to this program.