Live Pharmacy CE presents:
Reducing Medication Errors
and Increasing Patient
Safety in the Pharmacy

This live CE webinar will provide pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with practical information to help prevent medication errors and increase patient safety. Review the many reasons for medication errors with an expert, who will introduce strategies you can employ to improve your safety profile.

A medication error is often defined as any preventable error that initiates the improper use of medications. In 2006, the Institute of Medicine report, Preventing Medication Errors, estimated that at least 1.5 million patients are harmed each year by medication errors. Error prevention is a common concern that affects all patients and healthcare professionals including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. These errors often include the misinterpretation of a written prescription or verbal communication, inadequate knowledge of patient’s medical or medication history, or incorrect package labeling.

For pharmacists and other health care professionals, this webinar will give you the tools you need to

This information, and more, can be found by signing up for this webinar on LivePharmacyCE.com.

Our Presenter: Kristin W. Weitzel, Pharm.D., CDE, FAPhA
Director of Experiential Education
Clinical Associate Professor
Pharmacotherapy & Translational Research
University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Kristin Weitzel received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Florida in 1998 and completed a Community Pharmacy Practice Specialty Residency with the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia and Ukrop’s Pharmacies. Dr. Weitzel is currently Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Experiential Education in the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and practices in the ambulatory care setting. Dr. Weitzel’s practice and research interests include the treatment of diabetes and depression in ambulatory care patients and innovation in preceptor development and clinical teaching. Dr. Weitzel is a Certified Diabetes Educator and a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association.

This activity is sponsored by Postgraduate Healthcare Education, LLC (PHE).
There has been no commercial support for this activity.