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It is the expectation at my facility that we careplan anticoagulant medications with "A risk for bleeding/bruising r/t use of ________"
Even tho I think it is overkill most of the time, I have seen it save us with state when a resident came up w/ a big bruise of unknown origin on ASA & Lovenox. It proved to them that it was an anticipated event and not necessarily an indication of mistreatment.
(and we never, ever, ever call them drugs...they are medications).
i don't think i've called them "drugs" as opposed to "medications", but isn't that just semantics? i mean, they are drugs.....legal, prescribed ones, of course; but heck, we look them up in the physicians drug reference, or the nurses drug book. never really thought about it, and don't think it would cause a stir......:bowingpur
i don't think i've called them "drugs" as opposed to "medications", but isn't that just semantics? i mean, they are drugs.....legal, prescribed ones, of course; but heck, we look them up in the physicians drug reference, or the nurses drug book. never really thought about it, and don't think it would cause a stir......:bowingpur
our corporate people just prefer the term medication over drug..."drug sounds so primative...it's all about verbage!" (picture a short red-head wearing a dress with tennis shoes...screaming and waving a clipboard).
:)
nratchet
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I have a question about care planning certain medications. In my facility, we care plan Coumadin and Heparin because they are monitored with lab tests. Does anyone care plan other related medications, (i.e. Lovenox, ASA, Plavix, etc) and, if so, what is your reasoning?
Thanx.