{"id":4161,"date":"2016-05-19T09:38:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2016-05-20T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:39:58","slug":"college-of-health-sciences-nursing-and-college-of-pharmacy-collaborate-on-interprofessional-lab-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2016\/05\/19\/college-of-health-sciences-nursing-and-college-of-pharmacy-collaborate-on-interprofessional-lab-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Health Sciences & Nursing and College of Pharmacy Collaborate on Interprofessional Lab Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belmont\u2019s School of Nursing and College of Pharmacy recently collaborated to demonstrate and educate students on their crucial roles in preventing medical errors. Collaboration and communication between health care professionals has been identified as one of the most important aspects of reducing errors and Belmont\u2019s collaborative partnerships illustrates the University\u2019s commitment to preparing its students for their careers.<\/p>\n

The inaugural pilot program\u2019s coordinator Dr. Anthony Blash, assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy said the collaboration between nurses and pharmacists allows for identification of potential medication errors, furthering the field\u2019s ability\u00a0to eliminate errors.\u00a0Some of the technology available at the bedside to prevent errors and promote patient safety includes medication dispensing cabinets, electronic health records, patient identification through electronic scanners and infusion safety software that provides \u201cdose error reduction.\u201d Each of these is utilized in Belmont\u2019s School of Nursing but, prior to this pilot, pharmacy students and nursing had not collaborated in the reduction of medical errors.<\/p>\n

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L to R: Drs. Blash and Hallmark<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Blash and Dr. Beth Fentress Hallmark, director of simulation in the College of Health Sciences & Nursing, provided simulation-based education to first-year pharmacy students in pharmacy\u2019s \u201cIntroduction to Drug Information and Informatics\u201d course.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know this makes a difference in the professional lives of these pharmacy students,\u201d Hallmark said. \u201cThe most powerful comment was when one of the students said she did not realize that nursing students knew so much about medication. Dr. Blash said it best when he talked about the \u2018us\u2019 vs \u2018them\u2019 mentality in healthcare and how it must be a \u2018we\u2019 mentality\u2026 this is what prevents medical error.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several nursing, business and pharmacy faculty participated in this initiative including\u00a0Sara Camp, Jean Blank, PJ Ambrefe, Victoria Buechel, Dr. Tammy Legge, Dr. David Wyant and Dr. Kate Claussen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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