Medication Management in Residential Aged Care

Clinical Information

Clinical information in medication management incorporates:

• Access to evidence based medicines information and clinical resources e.g. guidelines, Cochrane reviews, Scottish Intercollegiate Network.
• Clinical information relevant to scope of practice from other health professionals (HP) e.g. multidisciplinary case conferencing, hospital transfer letters.
• Co-ordination of timely medication reviews and chart rewrites.
• Residential Medication Management Reviews.

 

Knowledge

Demonstrate understanding of:

• the importance of accessibility of clinical information to all relevant HP – available information to match scope of practice
• the reasons for including indication for prescription on medication chart
• risk-benefit analysis, and
• location of resources.

Skills

Demonstrate ability to:

• record of clinical information
• integrate knowledge into practice, and
• access appropriate clinical information in a timely manner.

Tasks

• Undertake clinical examination and accurately record findings.
• Record clinical information in such a way as to be accessible and useable by each member of the care team.