NABH & Patient Safety
Medication Safety
Safe prescribing, high-alert medications, LASA drugs, medication reconciliation and error reporting.
- track
- NABH & Patient Safety
- format
- Self-paced
What this module covers
Safe prescribing, high-alert medications, LASA drugs, medication reconciliation and error reporting.
This is a self-paced training module that maps to NABH Accreditation Standards - MOM (Management of Medication) chapter. It is delivered inside the MedNext app so clinicians and hospital staff can work through it between shifts, with no live sessions or fixed deadlines.
What it covers in detail
Medication Safety
- The rights of safe medication administration and the checks that prevent wrong-patient, wrong-drug and wrong-dose errors.
- High-alert medications such as concentrated electrolytes, insulin, anticoagulants and opioids, and the extra safeguards they need.
- Look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) drugs and strategies such as tall-man lettering and separated storage.
- Medication reconciliation at admission, transfer and discharge to prevent omissions and duplications.
- Reporting medication errors and adverse drug reactions, and pharmacovigilance.
Who should complete this, and why
Medication safety involves prescribers, nurses who administer, and pharmacists who dispense, plus everyone who stores and transports drugs. NABH's medication-management standards require defined safeguards for high-alert and LASA drugs, so this module is core knowledge across the whole medication chain.
What you will be able to do after this module
On completion you should be able to
- Apply the safe-administration checks at the bedside.
- Handle high-alert medications with the additional safeguards they require.
- Recognise and mitigate LASA-drug risks.
- Perform medication reconciliation and report errors and adverse drug reactions.
Frequently asked questions
What are high-alert medications?
Drugs that carry a heightened risk of serious harm when used in error, such as concentrated electrolytes (for example potassium chloride), insulin, anticoagulants like heparin and warfarin, and opioids. They are stored, prescribed and checked with extra safeguards.
What is medication reconciliation?
It is the process of creating an accurate list of all a patient's medicines and comparing it against new orders at admission, transfer and discharge, so that nothing is unintentionally omitted, duplicated or changed.
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