In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Medication errors: Cultivating a safe workplace culture
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Medication errors: Cultivating a safe workplace culture
Sunday 1 October 2023, 01:30 AM
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In part two of her series on reducing medication errors, clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer looks at cultivating safe workplace cultures, focusing on psychological safety, minimising the occurrence of errors and fostering workplace innovation
The impact of staff shortages goes beyond relying on two pharmacists to do the work of three or four. We all know it leads to burnout, low staff moral
References
1. Enlaps. All about Ishikawa diagram. https://enlaps.io/us/guide/ishikawa-diagram.html
Additional information from the Australasian Institute of Clinical Governance, clinical governance training, https://www.aicg.edu.au/