PHRD-640: Collaboration to Improve Medical Safety

This course provides students the opportunity to explore topics related to safe, timely, efficient, effective, and patient-centered medication-use systems. Through an interprofessional context, students will explore medication safety issues as they relate to the health care system, evidence-based practice, quality and performance improvement, health information, and ultimately, health equity. Students will use an interprofessional framework to examine and apply systems thinking, human factors engineering priciples, and high-reliability principles to medication safety problems. By sharing experiences with other professions, students will learn to better communicate and make team-based decisions for optimal patient care and medication safety. Prerequisite: P2 standing. [ 1 credit ]