Nurses in the community of rational drug use in the elderly patient experience.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Nurses in the community of rational drug use in the elderly patient experience On: Pansy Yau, Chen on behalf of Jin, Li Yuanling [Keywords:] elderly patient; rational drug use; community Branch of self-built hospital in the past I 5 years, mainly elderly patient admitted to a large number of communities. Elderly people often suffer from various diseases, clinical medicine is also very complex, if the drug compatibility of the poor will be taking the wrong time and other reasons the rational use of drugs on the patient have been affected, while the nurse is the implementation of clinical medicine who is also guardian to assume the rational use of drugs very important role. Therefore, in this 5 year old patient we also paid a reasonable number of hard drug use, now experience are summarized below. A good observation of medication Community elderly patient medication, especially medication 3 days before the start, due to the slow response to elderly patient, and its not entirely clear to express their discomfort, then nurses should develop good work habits: that is to seriously ask, know response in patients with or without discomfort, and observe whether the skin, mucous membranes, and changes in excreta. Meanwhile a comprehensive understanding of drug side effects, elderly patient to be able to determine whether the process in the existence of drug side effects of drugs. at the same time more and advance patient communication, and more some preventive measures so that the patient has fully prepared in order to reduce the patient’s psychological panic, thereby reducing the incidence of medical disputes, but also in time to observe the drug’s side effects, take timely measures to deal with. 2 Nurses should pay attention to monitoring elderly patient’s medication Elderly patient’s care is more rational use of drugs is particularly important, especially some of the older patient is often the case of refusal of medication,