Medication Safety: Experiential Learning for Pharmacy Students and Staff in a Hospital Setting
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Setting
3. Medication Safety Program
3.1. Undergraduate Students
3.2. Pharmacy Interns
I enjoyed my PIL project. I really felt like I had achieved something by producing it. (2015)
… being able to get constant feedback is what I enjoyed the most, having a senior work closely with you to check how you are developing tools or collecting data builds confidence in what you are doing. (2014)
I experienced all components of experiential learning through completion of my project and implementation of strategies to reduce future errors. (2014)
… to work through developing auditing tools, which are important skills required to help me develop an audit for a current project I am involved in. (2012)
… medication adverse drug reaction reports locally and nationally and found attending the ADR meetings really useful. (2011)
… projects, going to the ward auditing patient charts, going to the ADR committee meetings and the other meetings re med safety were the most valuable and are valuable to me still today. (2011)
I saw the results of applied improvements (i.e., new labels on shelves to mark when GTN tablet bottles were opened). I have the confidence to complete an ADR form and attend meetings. (2010)
3.3. Pharmacy Staff
4. Pharmacy Based Medication Safety Programs Preparing for the Future
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Graudins, L.V.; Dooley, M.J. Medication Safety: Experiential Learning for Pharmacy Students and Staff in a Hospital Setting. Pharmacy 2016, 4, 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy4040038
Graudins LV, Dooley MJ. Medication Safety: Experiential Learning for Pharmacy Students and Staff in a Hospital Setting. Pharmacy. 2016; 4(4):38. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy4040038
Chicago/Turabian StyleGraudins, Linda V., and Michael J. Dooley. 2016. "Medication Safety: Experiential Learning for Pharmacy Students and Staff in a Hospital Setting" Pharmacy 4, no. 4: 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy4040038