Most common LTC meds - help with a list please:)

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Hi all:) I'm a nursing IV student starting a rotation in LTC this week. I want to make up some cards for the most common meds given so I won't have to make so many when I get my patient assignments. I know there will be lots of cardiac, diuretics, etc..

Just looking for the top 10-12 that you most commonly see in a LTC facility. Thanks!!

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Specializes in MDS coordinator, hospice, ortho/ neuro.

Digoxin, Lasix, Lexapro, Colace, Imdur, Verapamil, Atenolol, Synthroid, Norvasc, Zyprexa, Ambien, Buspar, Vicodin, Ultram, Tylenol, all the insulins, Glyburide, Glypizide

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Specializes in Skilled nursing@ LTC.

Lisinopril, lopressor, glucophage, cardizem, avandia, risperdal, zoloft, trazadone, and of course- everyone's favorite drug ATIVAN :yelclap:

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prevacid, albuterol(respiratory), alphagan(eye gtts)

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Esidrex, Metformin, Nitro patches, Nitro SL tabs, Percocet, Restoril.

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Specializes in Family.

Don't forget phenobarbitol! :cool:

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We give them all unless it is a specialty drug specific to CCU, ICU etc. You will certainly leave the LTC rotation knowing your drugs. Good luck.

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Hi all:) I'm a nursing IV student starting a rotation in LTC this week. I want to make up some cards for the most common meds given so I won't have to make so many when I get my patient assignments. I know there will be lots of cardiac, diuretics, etc..

Just looking for the top 10-12 that you most commonly see in a LTC facility. Thanks!!

There's what we like to refer to as the "green med pass" it consists mainly of Oyster Shell Calcium with Vit D!!!!

But anything for constipation will work too. LOL

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prilosec, omeprezol, Stress tab with zinc, vit C, Fentynl patches, Duoneb nebulizer treatments, sorbitol and lactulose, MOM, Dulcolax, Roxinal, levaquin, macrodantin

meds for wound care: Silvadene, Bactroban, polysporin and santyl, any hydrogel

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I haven't done LTC in a LONG time, but I do remember Flomax being a big one, also Fosamax. You'll probably also see betapace, haldol, detrol. Sorry, not much of a list, but I happen to readily remember these. :)

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Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

Cool job guys! I agree and would add Miacalcin, Potassium, Detrol, Synthroid, Quinine Sulfate, Neurotin, and lately Namenda has scored high with my residients.

I am seeing a newer trend with the pain meds lately. More use of Oxycodone, Oxycontin, and now Methadone is being used more and more for chronic back/leg pain.

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Plavix, coumadin, trental, zyprexa, tegretol, iron, lexapro, altace, claritan, bentyl, immodium, lovonox, megace, B 12 inj., lasix, kayexalate, myralax, pronestyl, phenergan, paxil, zoloft, effexor.

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