NACDS allies with LearnSomething to launch online patient safety course

ALEXANDRIA, Va. A new, complimentary patient-centric safety training course is available from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation and LearnSomething Inc., a provider of pharmacy, grocery and healthcare training programs.

The new online course is called Quality and Patient Safety: A Training Program for Community Pharmacy. Its goal, NACDS said, is to provide pharmacy professionals with tools and skills to help ensure quality and patient safety in their pharmacies.

“Patient safety is priority number one for the pharmacy community,” said NACDS president and CEO Steve Anderson, who chairs the Foundation. “Pharmacy is the front line of healthcare and the face of neighborhood healthcare. It plays an essential role in safeguarding patient safety in this ever-growing and complex healthcare delivery system.”

Anderson called the new course offering “a collaborative effort to maximize the safe usage of medications by patients,” and called it “fundamental to the Foundation’s goal of improving and strengthening the pharmacist-patient relationship for the benefit of patient care.”

The patient-safety course will be flexible enough to meet the specific training needs of individual pharmacies, according to NACDS, and can be tailor-made to include individual pharmacy’s policies, procedures, logos and customizable introductions.

One hour of Continuing Pharmacy Education credit is available to individuals who successfully complete the program, which can be accessed at: nacdsf.learnsomething.com.