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Self-management encompasses three key domains: medical, emotional and role management. 12 Medical management involves tasks and responsibilities related to managing or controlling one’s condition (eg taking medication, eating healthy); emotional management involves learning to manage feelings and emotions related to one’s condition (eg fear ...
Medication management is a strategy for engaging with patients and caregivers to create a complete and accurate medication list using the brown bag method. A complete and accurate medication list is the foundation for addressing medication reconciliation and medication management issues.
Standard 1: Professional Responsibility and Accountability. Demonstrates efective communication. Standard 2: Knowledge-Based Practice. Practices using evidence-informed knowledge. Standard 3: Ethical Practice. Practicing a holistic client/family-centred approach ensuring culturally safe client care.
There is a large and growing body of research addressing medication safety in health care. This literature covers the extent of the problem of medication errors and adverse drug events, the phases of the medication-use process vulnerable to error, and the threats all of this poses for patients.
Description. This publication provides an overview to direct nurses to the most appropriate information to support specific needs. It can be used by education and learning facilitators in practice to support robust training and competence development in medicines management.
The Medication Management strategy is an effort to engage patients and families to actively participate with you in developing a complete and accurate medication list from which you can complete medication reconciliation.
We need to ensure that medication-use measures improve care and lead to better outcomes by addressing medication optimization for effectiveness and safety, and coordination across multiple prescribers, sites, and pharmacies.
Medication errors can happen at any step of the medication use process, but a substantial burden of medication-related harm is focused primarily on three priority areas of healthcare delivery: transitions of care, polypharmacy and high-risk situations.
Many medications need to reach a certain level in your bloodstream to be effective. They need to be given at specific times, such as every morning, to keep that amount of drug in your system.
Medication therapy management interventions may reduce the frequency of some medication-related problems, including nonadherence, and lower some health care use and costs, but the evidence is insufficient with respect to improvement in health outcomes.