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AnnyKZ [126]
2 years ago
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How can older adults avoid polypharmacy? what is the nurse’s role in preventing polypharmacy?.

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soldier1979 [14.2K]2 years ago
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When seeing and evaluating senior patients, providers can use these methods to minimize polypharmacy:

Scrutinize medication lists during every patient visit and review the dosages.

The nurse’s role in preventing polypharmacy are:

  1. Assess for drug-drug interactions.
  2. Monitor for adverse drug withdrawal events.
  3. Identify any drug-related problem
<h3 /><h3>What is polypharmacy?</h3>

The use of numerous pharmaceuticals, commonly directed to as polypharmacy is expected in the older people with multimorbidity, as one or more medicines may be used to treat each situation

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