Analgesic and opioid stewardship
March 2022
This webinar covers:
- Current trends surrounding analgesic use and its ramifications to the public and the healthcare system
- How to apply stewardship strategies and interventions to ensure patients are appropriately educated about what to monitor while on opioids after surgery
- The clinical recommendations regarding the use of opioids for pain after surgery
- Learn about an initiative to optimise opioid prescriptions after surgery
Anti-Rejection Medications: Errors and Prevention
May 2022
This webinar includes:
- Characterising anti-rejection-related medication incidents into themes and subthemes
- Describing factors that contribute to anti-rejection medication-related errors
- Highlighting strategies and practices for preventing common errors associated with anti-rejection medications
Intravenous and ambulatory pump medication safety
June 2022
This webinar includes:
- Describing the contributing factors that led to patient's death and how they might continue to exist today
- Highlighting how human factors can contribute to intravenous medication errors
- Describing themes identified in recent multi-incident analyses of medication incidents associated with intravenous medications and ambulatory infusion pumps
- Characterising opportunities for implementation of system safeguards, safety enhancements, and continuous improvement
Paediatric medication safety
June 2022
This webinar covers:
- understanding the unique characteristics and safety challenges of medication use in paediatrics
- identifying three paediatric-related medication use concerns when transitioning from inpatient care to the community
- describing strategies for triaging and analysing paediatric prescriptions to ensure safe and appropriate dispensing.
Residential aged care and transitions of care
Consumer engagement
Facilitated by former SCV staff consumer lead, Belinda MacLeod-Smith, this session covers:
- why the patient voice is critical during patient care and explain ways to involve patients in their care
- the importance of continuous quality improvement processes including the reporting of errors and near misses as it pertains to a safety culture
- why collaboration and communication are key factors in reducing preventable harm from medications.
Multi-incident analysis
Facilitated by Nathan Farrow, Director, Centre for Patient Safety and Experience, SCV, this session covers:
- steps of the multi-incident analysis process
- how multi-incident analysis complements other medication incident analysis strategies.
These webinars are interactive sessions to help healthcare professionals:
- raise the profile of medicines safety issues relating to high-risk medicines and high-risk settings
- hear and learn from the experiences of others
- identify and address system vulnerabilities.