Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Medication”
The pandemic has had a huge impact on all of us, but even more so for residents living in post-acute centers. We have all witnessed the loneliness, isolation, physical and mental declines and if that isn’t troubling enough, a recent study found a significant increase in residents receiving antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, antidepressants, trazodone hydrochloride, anticonvulsants, and opioids. If you think about …
I remember working on a skilled Medicare unit and dreading the end of each month when that stack of new MARs were delivered from the pharmacy. I remember it very clearly, no one made eye contact with each other for fear it would be your turn to reconcile the month-end medication and treatment orders. It was definitely a tedious process …
