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Safety Webinar Day: Webinar 1 - Medication Safety Considerations from a Systems Perspective


When: September 18, 2018
Time: 9:30am Pacific
Price: $65 Individual View/$150 Group View
Registration was open until 9/18/2018 at 1pm, and is now closed.

1 unit EDAC continuing education
1 unit AIA continuing education

CEU forms available for download during webinar

CEUs


This webinar is free to our Affiliate+ members.

 

This webinar is one of three webinars that are part of Safety Webinar Day.
To buy a pass to all three webinars, click here. 
 

Join us to hear of  a systems approach to enhance medication safety using Human Factors strategies. Specifically, the webinar will highlight various considerations, evaluation strategies, and previously completed projects which aim to optimize tasks being performed, information and equipment used, and the design of environments for individuals involved in the medication use process.

 

Learning Objectives

  • Understand and describe the applicability of human factors in medication safety.
  • Highlight the importance of designing tasks, information, equipment, and environments to enhance medication safety.
  • Identify various evaluation methods to assess the usability of tasks, information, equipment and environments.
  • Describe how observed behaviors and user feedback can be used for the assessment of built environments.

 

Presenting Faculty

 

Jonas Shultz, MSc, EDAC, Human Factors Specialist, Health Quality Council of Alberta

As a Human Factors Specialist with the Health Quality Council of Alberta, Jonas has 10 years’ experience working in medical human factors. He has provided human factors expertise to a variety of healthcare organizations, including Alberta Health Services, Health Canada, ISMP Canada, as well as The Center for Health Design and Clemson University’s Center for Health Facility Design and Testing in the United States. He is also an adjunct lecturer with the Department of Anesthesia, Cumming School of Medicine with the University of Calgary. The majority of Jonas’ work has focused on evaluating the design of built environments for healthcare, such as hybrid operating theatres or ambulances, minimizing human error during medication administration, and testing the usability of medical devices. Jonas has published his work in peer reviewed papers and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international organizations and conferences in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Saudi Arabia.