Top medications used in LTC

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Does anyone know where I could find a list of the most commonly used meds in long term care or have a list themselves? I need to brush up on them. Thanks!

Specializes in retired LTC.
Amen amen amen.

Patients getting mad being woken up at 0600..why do you wake me up every morning for one little pill??!

And it's like 75% of the floor takes it! Only good thing is it is crushable!

Like the magic cure-all for the elderly!

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Specializes in retired LTC.

And besides the 12-6 12-6 ABT, there's that old favorite the 12-6 12-6 nebulizer tx!

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synthroid, namenda, digoxin, lipitor, colace, senna, citalopram, aricept, metformin, metoprolol, hctz, sinemet, seroquel, vit D, vit B, calcium, FeSO4, areds, lortab, percocet, roxanol, alprazolam, lorazepam, lidoderm patches, exelon patches, albuterol, spiriva, advair, ABTs.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..

Acetaminophen, Hydrocodone, Colace, Senna, Metamucil, Miralax, Milk of Mag, Lisinopril, Furosemide, Hydroclorothiazide, Digoxin, Namenda, Duoneb, Spiriva, Combivent, Synthroid, Lipitor, metformin, Asprin, Bactrim, Ativan, Clonazepam, Nitroglycerin, Morphine Sulfate.

Calcium/D, Fish oil, glucosamine, multivitamin.

Lantus, NPH and Novolog insulin.

Oh, plus Cialis and Viagra.

Just kidding!

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I had an LTC patient on Viagra once and also asked me for his little blue pill once..eeewwe

The other lists are good, I would add....

Glipizide, Trajenta, Coumadin, Aricept, Sinemet, Allopurinol, Beta blockers, and all other HTN meds, Boniva,Fosamax, and the like, Protonix and the like -azole's

Definitely Aspirin, Plavix, Imdur, potassium, lasix, Neurotin, Vytorin, Zocor,Zoloft, Celexa, Lyrica, Zyprexa, Voltaren, Flomax, Remeron, Risperdal, Haldol, Deoakote, Mobic

The list could go on and on

Oh..eye drips too- Xalatan, Timolol, etc...

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Psych, Addictions..

I had a female pt on Viagra too. I thought it was a mistake, but it wasn't. It was for her stiff lungs.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

WAAAAAAAY too many vitamins and supplements!! :mad:

We have one resident who's supposedly on 'comfort care' with Stage IV lung cancer and has trouble taking pills. Yet in addition to the eight Rx meds he gets at 0900, we give him CoQ10, OcuVite, B12, MVI, Vit. C, D, and B-complex, Florastor, MagOx, Ca+ w/ D, Senna-S and DSS (he's got C. diff, for Pete's sake!!), low-dose ASA, and a health shake. AND a bolus tube feeding. AND he usually needs pain meds. It takes 20 minutes to get all that stuff into him.....ain't NOBODY got time for that. And he hates it---he gets so tired out from taking all that stuff that he often falls asleep in the middle of it. But his family insists on all of it, so we're all stuck with the routine. :no:

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Had a young guy, early 20's, was on Aricept. For memory issues as a result of taking a baseball bat blow to the head.

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.
I had a female pt on Viagra too. I thought it was a mistake, but it wasn't. It was for her stiff lungs.

i thought viagra was supposed to ehm create stiffness :D

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Transplant, Education.
i thought viagra was supposed to ehm create stiffness :D

Sildenafil, the other name for Viagra (in this case known as Revatio) is also used for pulmonary hypertension.

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.
Sildenafil, the other name for Viagra (in this case known as Revatio) is also used for pulmonary hypertension.

i don't see the "grin" emoticon anymore, perhaps that would have been

clearer than the "joyful"

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Which pharmacology website? Please share, thanks :)

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