Nursing Academy · MINC-NM-003
Safe Medication Administration and Pharmacovigilance
Safe Medication Administration and Pharmacovigilance was selected because it addresses an important nursing responsibility with direct implications for patient safety, continuity and quality of care. The module progresses from foundational concepts through assessment, nursing action, communication, evaluation and an integrated practice-improvement exercise.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Medication harm arises from prescribing, transcription, dispensing, administration, monitoring and communication failures. Nurses need reliable verification habits, accurate calculations, high-alert medicine safeguards, adverse-event recognition and a just reporting culture.
What you will be able to do
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to apply rights and verification checks throughout medication administration.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to calculate, prepare, administer and document medicines safely.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to recognise and manage high-risk medication situations within scope.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to monitor for therapeutic effects and adverse reactions.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to report medication incidents and suspected adverse drug reactions appropriately.
Units
- Medication safety as a system responsibility (60 min)
- The medication-use pathway and nursing control points (60 min)
- Patient identification before medication administration (60 min)
- Allergy and previous reaction verification (60 min)
- The rights of medication administration (60 min)
- Reading and validating medication orders (60 min)
- Recognising ambiguous, incomplete or unsafe orders (60 min)
- Medication reconciliation at transitions of care (60 min)
- Basic dose calculation (60 min)
- Weight-based dose calculation (60 min)
- Concentration, volume and dilution calculations (60 min)
- Oral medicine administration (60 min)
- Enteral-tube medication safety (60 min)
- Topical, eye, ear and inhaled medicines (60 min)
- Subcutaneous injection (60 min)
- Intramuscular injection (60 min)
- Intravenous medicine preparation principles (60 min)
- IV compatibility, line tracing and labelling (60 min)
- Infusion-rate calculation and pump safety (60 min)
- High-alert medicines and independent double checks (60 min)
- Insulin safety (60 min)
- Anticoagulant safety (60 min)
- Opioid safety and respiratory monitoring (60 min)
- Electrolyte concentrates and other high-risk infusions (60 min)
- Medication safety in children (60 min)
- Medication safety in pregnancy and breastfeeding (60 min)
- Medication safety in renal and hepatic impairment (60 min)
- Polypharmacy and older adults (60 min)
- Timing, omitted doses and refused medicines (60 min)
- Monitoring therapeutic response (60 min)
- Recognising adverse drug reactions (60 min)
- Anaphylaxis after medication exposure (60 min)
- Pharmacovigilance and adverse-reaction reporting (60 min)
- Medication errors, near misses and just culture (60 min)
- Immediate response after a medication incident (60 min)
- Documentation and legal accountability (60 min)
- Safe storage, cold chain and controlled medicines (60 min)
- Patient education and adherence support (60 min)
- Discharge medicines and communication (60 min)
- Integrated medication-safety scenario and improvement plan (60 min)
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