Promoting Medication Safety Week 8
Background: Maya Steele, a shopper from the digital expertise, has a number of power well being points and has just lately returned to her house. In the course of the house go to, the neighborhood well being/public well being nurse noticed that Maya is excessive threat for making a medicine error. Maya had a troublesome time telling the nurse what every of her medicines was for, and was uncertain concerning the timing of among the medicines. Because the nurse, you resolve to create a custom-made “capsule reminder card” to Help Maya maintain monitor of her medicines and to deal with any potential low well being literacy considerations and her considerations about her considerably decreased imaginative and prescient.
○ Maya’s power medical points embody: hypertension, hyperlipidemia, Kind II Diabetes Mellitus, gastroesophageal reflux illness (GERD), osteoporosis, allergic rhinitis, open-angle glaucoma, gentle anxiousness.
○ Maya’s Medicines:
■ Atenolol 100mg tab; one p.o. day by day
■ Hydrochlorothiazide 25mg tab; one and a half tabs p.o. day by day
■ Atorvastatin 40mg tab; one p.o. day by day
■ Metformin 500mg tab; one p.o. twice day by day with meals
■ Lansoprazole 30mg capsule; one p.o. day by day
■ Clonazepam 1mg pill; ½-1 pill p.o. twice day by day as wanted for anxiousness
■ Timolol zero.5% ophthalmic answer; 1 gtt every eye BID
■ Fluticasone nasal spray; one spray in every nostril BID
■ Alendronate 70mg tab; one p.o. as soon as per week; 30 minutes earlier than first meals/different meds; stay upright x 30 minutes
● Directions:
○ College students ought to create a custom-made, digital doc that may function a Capsule Reminder Card for Maya.
○ College students ought to embody the identify of every medication, the dose, necessary info in straightforward to know phrases (recalling Maya’s low well being literacy), use simply comprehensible graphics/clip artwork for time of day equivalent to morning or bedtime, embody an image of the capsule/product equivalent to form/measurement, and photos that Help Maya bear in mind what the capsule is for (equivalent to an eye fixed for the glaucoma remedy). College students ought to use precise remedy photos within the doc and choose clip artwork that’s acceptable. Neatness and readability of the Capsule Reminder Card is important.
■ An instance of a capsule card will be accessed through “Tips on how to Create a Capsule Card” at https://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/diagnosis-treatment/therapies/pillcard/index.html#Creating
■ It’s advisable that the scholar conduct an Web search to discover a web site that presents precise capsule photographs (equivalent to WebMD’s Capsule Identification Instrument: http://www.webmd.com/pill-identification/default.htm). The coed might want to copy/save the picture and probably resize it in order that it matches within the capsule reminder card.
○ College students ought to add the Capsule Reminder Card (digital model) to the DROP BOX.
■ Notice: The drawing instruments in MS Phrase are ample to finish this task; buy of drawing software program isn’t required.
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Week 8: Promoting Medication Safety
Week 8: Promoting Medication Safety
Maya Steele, a digital expertise shopper, has many power well being considerations and has just lately returned to her house. The neighborhood well being/public well being nurse noticed through the house go to that Maya is at excessive threat of creating a medicine error. Maya struggled to elucidate to the nurse what every of her prescriptions was for, and he or she was confused concerning the timing of a few of them. Because the nurse, you resolve to design a personalised “capsule reminder card” to help Maya in protecting monitor of her meds and to deal with any potential low well being literacy considerations in addition to her considerations about her considerably impaired imaginative and prescient.
Maya has numerous power medical situations, together with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and Kind II Diabetes Mellitus.
