IMPROVING THE ROLES OF HEALTH WORKER AND COMMUNITY IN PREVENTING MEDICATION ERRORS

• Main Authors: Inge Dhamanti, -, Diansanto Prayoga, -, Syifa’ul Lailiyah, -, Elida Zairina, -
• Format: Article PeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: Universitas Airlangga
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/125387/1/C11_Artikel.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/125387/2/C11_Turnitin.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/125387/3/C11_Validasi.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/125387/; https://e-journal.unair.ac.id/jlm/article/view/31562

Abstract Providing safe services is important in the implementation of health services. Medication errors are a failure of the treatment process that has the potential to cause harm to patients. The incidence of treatment errors can be prevented through increased understanding of health workers and the community regarding the safety of treatment. The active role of patients and their families during treatment process can minimize harm that may happened. This program aims to increase the knowledge of health workers and community as an important element of health services in order to prevent the occurrence of medication error. Efforts to increase knowledge are carried out through the holding of webinars for the community related to 5 moments for medication safety and treatment safety training activities for health workers. Knowledge change was measured using a pre and posttest questionnaires. The target of activities amounted to 37 people and 15 health workers. The results of the analysis showed positive changes in average knowledge with an increase in community knowledge (97.3%) and health workers (100%). The results of this activity become the provision of the community or health workers to increase their role in the safety of treatment with knowledge that has been obtained during community service activities. Keywords: Medication safety, health workers, community, medication error