CE Credits Available for this Activity: 1
Release and Expiration Dates
10/19/2023 – 10/19/2026
Knowledge Gap: This activity aims to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on pediatric medication safety and strategies to improve medication prescribing.
Target Audience: The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals who would like to recognize the significance of medication use errors in pediatrics, learn effective strategies to improve prescribing safety, and implement new practices to enhance patient care.
Program Overview: The purpose of this activity is to educate medical professionals on pediatric medication safety and strategies to improve medication prescribing.
Objectives
Recognize that medication use errors are the number one most common patient care errors in pediatrics.
List three strategies to improve safe medication prescribing.
Adopt one new strategy to increase safe medication prescribing.
References
National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Preventable Adverse Drug Events Among Inpatients: A Systematic Review
-Peter j. Gates, PhD; Sophie A. Meyerson; BSPH, Melissa T. Baysari, PhD; Christopher U. Lehmann, MD, FAAP, FACMI, FIAHSI; Johanna I. Westbrook, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI, FACHI
National Poison Data System (NPDS)
Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Preventing Home Medication Administration Errors
-H. Shonna Yin, MD, MSc, FAAP; Daniel R. Neuspiel, MD, MPH, FAAP’ Ian M. Paul, MD, MSc, FAAP
American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Financial Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers, and/or panelists of this CE activity have financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose:
Jessica Snowden, MD – Consultant: Pfizer
All financial relationships have been mitigated.
No other planners, speakers, and/or peer reviewers of this CME activity have relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The compliance reviewer, Courtney Bryant, Sara Hale, or Brandie Jones, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Planners: Jessica Snowden, MD; Jeannette Lee, PhD; Lora Lawrence, RN; Catrice Banks-Johnson, MPA; DeAnn Hubberd, MA
Speaker(s): Margret Scheffler, MD
Speaker(s) Bio
Margaret Scheffler, MD, is a pediatric intensivist and medical director of pediatric sedation and pediatric critical care services at Lifespan. She is also an associate professor of pediatrics and a clinical educator at The Warren Alpert Medical School.
Instructions to Obtain Credit
(1) Launch the activity
(2) View the module
(3) Take 1 post-test at the end
(4) Complete Evaluation and Print certificate
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation Statements
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACPE Credit Designation Statement
These knowledge-based activities will provide pharmacists with up to 1 contact hour or 1 CEU. CE credit information, based on participation and completion of the program evaluation, will be provided to NABP within 60 days after the activity completion.
ANCC Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 ANCC contact hours. Nursing contact hours will be awarded for successful completion of program components based upon documented attendance and completion of evaluation materials.
AAPA Credit Designation Statement
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Disclosure Policy Statement
It is the policy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Office of Continuing Education (OCE) to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all directly or jointly provided educational activities. All individuals who are in a position to control the content of the educational activity (course/activity directors, planning committee members, staff, teachers, or authors of CE) must disclose all relevant financial relationships they have with any commercial interest(s) as well as the nature of the relationship. The ACCME describes relevant financial relationships as those in any amount occurring within the past 24 months that create a conflict of interest. Individuals who refuse to disclose will be disqualified from participation in the development, management, presentation, or evaluation of the CE activity.
UAMS Office of Continuing Education (OCE) Contact Information
Email: cmeconf@uams.edu
Phone: 501-661-7962
DCOC Contact Information
Catrice Banks-Johnson
Email: crbanksjohnson@uams.edu
DeAnn Hubberd
Email: DEHubberd@uams.edu
