Interprofessional learning about medication safety

Abstract

Background: Safe medication management requires collaboration between health professionals. Approach: A mixed academic and clinician team co-designed and co-facilitated a 2-h interprofessional medication safety workshop, covering medication history taking, perioperative medication management, discharge planning, incident review and dosing and administration calculations. Three workshop sessions were delivered across three sites during September 2019 at a large metropolitan healthcare network. Senior nursing, medical and pharmacy students were invited to participate in the workshops and evaluation. Evaluation: We evaluated satisfaction, learning experience and perceived clinical application f..