🔷 Overview
The prevention of medication errors is one of the priorities of the World Health Organization. These errors are the 3rd leading cause of serious adverse events.
This training course offers an immersive experience on the occurrence of a medication error, in order to review best practices for preventing medication errors and managing workload.
🔷 Description
Pre-requisites:
- Be a healthcare system professional
Duration:
- 1 hour independently
- 1 hour in a group (videoconference debriefing)
HAS certification criteria:
- Criterion 2.2-02: Teams adhere to best practices for prescribing medications.
- Criterion 2.2-05: Teams adhere to best practices for administering medications.
- Criterion 2.2-06: Teams prevent the risk of medication errors.
- Criterion 3.2-04: The hospital trains its professionals in risk management using healthcare simulation tools.
🔷 Strengths
- Providing concrete tools to modify one's practice.
- Filmed interview with Fatma Guandouz, expert in healthcare simulation and intensive care nurse.
- Mixed format, combining video immersion, individual reflection and collective debriefing.
🔷 Program
― Self-paced learning (asynchronous)
- Introduction totraining
- Pre-test (positioning test)
- Video simulation
- Immersive video-simulation recounts the story of two nurses and an orderly in a care unit, from the moment they are welcomed out of the recovery room to a life-threatening medication error.
- Filmed interview: synthesis and analysis of the situation.
- Summary of key points to remember
- Recognize the risk of medication error (real-life case study behind the video simulation).
- Improve the reliability of your handovers with the SAED tool, the "Who" triangle.
- Managing task interruptions with the Stand-by tool.
- Sharing practices: my strategies for limiting medication errors.
- Post-test (measuring progress and validating skills) & Action plan
- Training assessment
― Group debriefing via videoconference (synchronous - optional)
- Video simulation debriefing with a teamwork expert.
- Identify discrepancies between professional practice and best practices to ensure medication administration safety.
- Identify individual and team areas for improvement.
- Establish an individual and collective action plan to strengthen teamwork.
◆ In-house training session ◆
Price per learner, applicable for a reference group of 10 professionals. This price gives each learner access to the e-learning course. A group debriefing via videoconference can be organized at the end of the training upon request (optional, based on a quote).
◆ Individual license ◆
Annual subscription giving access to the entire catalog on an individual basis. Group debriefings are reserved for in-house training and are available as an option for groups.
