Alaine Adea, nursing educator at Al-Ahli Hospital, during her presentation on Medication Safety.
Doha: Al-Ahli Hospital is hosting an online seminar on Medication Safety that includes a number of important areas related to the topic.
The seminar is being organised by Al-Ahli Hospital’s Nursing Department and Training Department between May 24 and May 31.
It aims to provide an overview of medication as source of adverse events, discuss various types of medication errors and its sources, identify factors that contribute to medication errors and describe possible consequences of medication errors to patient safety.
The seminar is accredited for 5 credit points Category 1 by the Ministry of public Health’s department of healthcare professions.
The event was attended by Al-Ahli Hospital staff and healthcare practitioners from other hospitals.
Claudine El Araybi, the Director of Nursing at Al-Ahli Hospital and the Chairman of the Scientific Planning Committee said, “The seminar of the Medication Safety is offered to all healthcare practitioners. The seminar is designed for clinical providers involved in the medication process and it will help to update the knowledge they have in medication safety including in areas such as the theory behind medication errors, how often they occur, why they occur and how to prevent them.”
Alaine Adea, nursing educator at Al-Ahli Hospital, highlighted the importance of safety culture in improving the safe delivery of care, particularly the high-risk activity of medication administration to all guests.
Sandra, nursing educator at Al-Ahli Hospital said, “Nurses have a unique role and responsibility in medication administration, in that they are frequently the final person to check to see that the medication is correctly prescribed and dispensed before administration. This seminar is a reminder for all healthcare professionals on how we can avoid making medication errors.”
