Ensuring safe and optimal medication use in older community residents: collaboration between a nurse and a pharmacist

The purpose of this retrospective review is to describe 1) a nurse-pharmacist collaboration within a home based nurse-occupational therapist-handyman program called CAPABLE and 2) potential medication problems and 3) information communicated to participants and prescribers about those problems. A chart review was performed for each participant that one CAPABLE nurse referred to the pharmacists. We identified recommendations provided by pharmacists, synthesized common questions posed to the pharmacists' and developed exemplar cases of participant encounters.

Source: Geriatric Nursing - April 10, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Pherson, Jill Roth, Manka Nkimbeng, Cynthia Boyd, Sarah L. Szanton Source Type: research