As part of our project, helping staff who have no medical training be more comfortable observing patients take their medications we have decided to focus on a few different topics:
1. revising the checklist staff go by for each encounter - the staff have a checklist of items to review such as verify date of birth, medications, correct time of day of medications, etc. to check off while viewing each patient when they are taking their meds.
2. making a patient/staff friendly reminder of how to correctly use insulin - as most patients do not practice proper technique and the staff are not able to do it for them
3. making available a list of signs of EPS - EPS or extrapyridmidal symptoms are symptoms that can be seen when patients are taking anti-psychotic meds. Since most of the observers have no medical training they are not aware of things to look for in patients on anti-psychotics
4. making available a patient/staff friendly reminder of basic inhaler information - information such as the difference between the different types (meter dose vs. dry podwer, rinsing mouth after dry powder use, shaking your albuterol before use, rescue vs maintenance, etc.) so both the patients and staff have a basic understanding of the carious types out there
- Nichelle
1. revising the checklist staff go by for each encounter - the staff have a checklist of items to review such as verify date of birth, medications, correct time of day of medications, etc. to check off while viewing each patient when they are taking their meds.
2. making a patient/staff friendly reminder of how to correctly use insulin - as most patients do not practice proper technique and the staff are not able to do it for them
3. making available a list of signs of EPS - EPS or extrapyridmidal symptoms are symptoms that can be seen when patients are taking anti-psychotic meds. Since most of the observers have no medical training they are not aware of things to look for in patients on anti-psychotics
4. making available a patient/staff friendly reminder of basic inhaler information - information such as the difference between the different types (meter dose vs. dry podwer, rinsing mouth after dry powder use, shaking your albuterol before use, rescue vs maintenance, etc.) so both the patients and staff have a basic understanding of the carious types out there
- Nichelle