Behind the Chart: How Medication Reconciliation Stops Medication Errors

SUMMARY:
Medication reconciliation is one of the most important safeguards nurses use to help prevent medication errors, adverse drug events, and patient harm across care transitions. This podcast will explore how accurate medication histories, careful assessment, informatics tools, patient education, and interprofessional communication work together to improve medication safety.
The conversation will address high-risk areas nurses frequently encounter, including incomplete medication histories, look-alike/sound-alike medications, ISMP high-alert medications, insulin safety, anticoagulant precautions, and polypharmacy in older adults. Real-world medication errors and root cause analysis will be used to highlight how RNs can recognize discrepancies, question unclear orders, strengthen handoff communication, and prevent errors before they reach the patient.

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Series: Behind the Chart: How Medication Reconciliation Stops Medication Errors

Refuse to Say “I’m Just a Nurse”: Advocacy and Career Agency

SUMMARY:
This intermediate-level course examines how nurses can counter inaccurate public narratives, communicate professionally during workplace conflict, and use nursing expertise across evolving career paths. Drawing on Kelley Johnson’s advocacy experience and reflections on early-practice nursing, the course connects professional identity with patient safety, team trust, direct communication, boundaries, and career sustainability.

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Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Beyond Burnout: Building Capacity for Sustainable Nursing Practice

SUMMARY:
Feeling “maxed out” involves more than fatigue. In this episode, Dr. Erica Ramey explains how emotional, cognitive, physical, and relational capacity affect nurses’ well-being, clinical judgment, communication, and ability to provide care. She also discusses common misconceptions about recovery, practical capacity-building strategies, and the role healthcare organizations play in supporting sustainable nursing practice.

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Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Beyond Burnout: Building Capacity for Sustainable Nursing Practice