Drug Safety Foundation

Self medication, drug errors, medical errors, control of drugs, Patients safety, drug development safety etc.

What you'll learn

Patient safety

Ways to keep health workers safe

Medication safety tips for families

Drug errors

Understanding the relationship between poverty and addiction

Unintended addictions to prescription painkillers

Self medication

Information for consumer and patients about drug

Drug development safety and pharmacovigilance

Proscription drug advertising

Administration of drugs

Drug checking

Requirements

No requirement

Description

The drug safety issues is a concern for everybody because the implication of drug abuse can be very fatal and detrimental which can easily lead to death and also causing more harm to the entire body. Self medication has traditionally been defined as the the taking of drug, or herbs or home remedies on one's own initiative or on the advice of another person, without consulting a doctor. families, friends, neighbors, the pharmacist, previous prescribe drug, or suggestions from an advertisement in newspapers or popular magazines are common sources of self - medication. Self- medication is very common and a number of reasons could be enumerated for it, such as the urge for self-care, feeling of sympathy toward family members in sickness, lack of time, lack of health services, ignorance. Since individuals are not expert in health issues and drug usage that application of drug in a bad way has ample effect on the entire body, so its always better  to consult a professional when taking drugs.When giving children liquid medicine, confusion about units of measurement can lead to large dosing errors. to prevent dosing errors, medical professional organizations recommend using milliliters when prescribing oral liquid medicines and ML units be the only units appearing on dosing instructions, labels, and dosing devices. There are four simple tips for safe dosing such as know the dose, measure the right amount, use the right tool, and get questions answered etc. every serious parent must ensure that they always hide medicines from the reach of children because they can even use the medicine as a mere drink, which can cause a lot of harm. Health managers must ensure that they take very good care of health workers because when they are infected as health workers its very easy for the infection to be transferred on to the patients. The necessary health equipment should be given to health workers to protect themselves.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is a drug

Lecture 3 What is meditation

Lecture 4 Spiritual and religious use of drug

Lecture 5 Smart drugs and designer drugs

Lecture 6 Recreational drug use

Lecture 7 Administration of drugs

Lecture 8 Control of drugs

Lecture 9 Drug checking

Lecture 10 Medical error

Section 2: Self Meditation

Lecture 11 Introduction

Lecture 12 Why do people use self meditation

Lecture 13 Potential benefits of self meditation

Lecture 14 Potential risk of self meditation

Lecture 15 Prevention of potential risk associated with self meditation

Lecture 16 Promotion of responsible self meditation

Section 3: Patient Safety

Lecture 17 Clean hands counts for safe healthcare

Lecture 18 Get ahead of sepsis know and risk spot the signs act fact

Lecture 19 Be antibiotic aware :smart use, best care

Lecture 20 Vaccine safety

Lecture 21 Protect your children: store and use medicines safely

Lecture 22 Put your medicines up and away and out of sight

Lecture 23 Getting medical care, how to avoid getting infection

Lecture 24 What you should know before your surgery

Section 4: 4 Ways To Keep Health Workers Safe

Lecture 25 Provide health workers with PPE and vaccines

Lecture 26 Protect health wealth workers from sexual harassment and discrimination

Lecture 27 Let health workers advocate for themselves

Lecture 28 Gather data needed to protect health workers

Section 5: Meditation Safety Tips For Families

Lecture 29 Protecting children and teens

Lecture 30 Safe storage: out of reach and sight

Lecture 31 Talking and giving your child medicine

Lecture 32 Get answers

Lecture 33 Avoid unnecessary medicines

Section 6: Understanding The Relationship Between Poverty And Addition

Lecture 34 Poverty increases addition risk factors

Lecture 35 Addition can cause people to slip into poverty

Lecture 36 Promoting recovery by treating the root causes of addiction

Section 7: Unintended Addictions To Prescription Painkillers Pose A Serious Threat

Lecture 37 Determining if you may leave an addiction

Lecture 38 Understanding psychological verses physical dependence

Lecture 39 The deadly consequences of addiction

Section 8: Information For Consumer And Patients About Drug

Lecture 40 Do not be tempted to use expired medicines

Lecture 41 Frequently asked questions about labeling for prescription medicines

Lecture 42 Generic drugs

Lecture 43 High blood pressure - understanding the silent killer

Lecture 44 Over - the - counter (OTC) heartburn treatment

Lecture 45 Tainted sexual enhancement product

Section 9: Presentation Drug Advertising

Lecture 46 Background on drug advertising

Lecture 47 Basics of drug ads

Lecture 48 Prescription drug advertising questions and answers

Lecture 49 Prescription drug advertising questions to ask yourself

Section 10: Drug Development Safety

Lecture 50 Background

Lecture 51 Drug development pipeline

Lecture 52 Shortcomings of the drug

Lecture 53 Data sources on drug development process

Lecture 54 Answering key questions on drug safety

Lecture 55 Assessing safety during pre-clinical trials

Lecture 56 Pharmacovigilance and post market surveillance

Section 11: Drug Errors

Lecture 57 Drug errors

Patients, consumers, doctors, nurses, health workers, specialist, health consultants, hospital administrators, managers, governments, health regulators, drug regulators, everybody etc.