Medication Management
Barriers
Strategies
Resources
100
Medication Management involves collaboration between the _____ and _______, to ensure safety and compliance with medications
Patient, Healthcare team
100
This barrier can stop more than little ones from obtaining medication
Child-Proof Cap
100
What is this:
Pill Container/Organizer
100
Besides the prescriber, who can tell you about your prescription?
The pharmacist or nurse
200
Having greater than four prescribed medications
Polypharmacy
200
A hospital social worker might be able to help bring this down.
Cost
200
What should you do when you prescribed a new medication?
Ask what its for
200
Help! I’m home and I can’t remember what this medication is for!?
The package insert, your pharmacy, your doctors office, electronic health record, will all help you.
300
How often should you have your doctor review your medications?
At least once a year.
300
“My blood pressure is fine, I don't need to take my blood pressure pill today”
Always take medicine as prescribed.
300
Get Pharmacy involved and set this up!
Automatic Refills
300
This one syllable website, features “My Med List”, a tool to “Organize your medications into an easy-to-read format, that provides in-depth drug interaction data, news, and FDA alerts.”
400
This is an easy way to keep track of all your medications
A list
400
B.I.D. is better than Q.I.D., when it comes to this
Medication Frequency
400
If pills are too difficult, you can ask for this instead
Liquid Medication
400
This list, named after its founder, features guidelines for “Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults”
The Beers List
500
True or False:
Over the Counter Medications are not medications
False
500
These can be harmful, or beneficial, but most of these go away over time.
Side effects
500
This assistant is smart
Google/Alexa/Siri
500
The free tool is available online, and can “...help clinicians and patients make decisions about reducing or stopping medications.”