Decreasing Polypharmacy: The Art of Deprescribing
This handout discusses problems with polypharmacy, and provides recommendations for how clinicians should discuss the process of deprescribing medications to their patients.
Getting Started with Interprofessional Practice and Education in Community-Based Settings
In this Journal of Nursing Education editorial, Barbara Brandt and Amy Barton describe the impact of the National Center's "Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice" Initiative and the implementation across 16 schools of nursing in the Unites States, each partnering with a community-based organization to further interprofessional initiatives designed around the needs of the patient, family, and community.
IPE Unfolding Case Repository
Hello,
I am interested in putting together an IPE unfolding case respository (with emphasis on cases that relate to the various health professions). Would anyone be interested in submitting IPE unfolding case activities that they have designed and/or implemented? I'm envisioning a relatively simple website with cases in PDF format tagged by keywords relating to the professions that the cases were designed for in mind and perhaps the conditions that they center around. Would anyone like to collaborate on putting something like this together?
Warm regards,
FREE CEs: Understanding and Managing the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has thrown us into a period of massive upheaval. A national survey from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) shows COVID-19 is seriously affecting Americans' mental health, with half of U.S. adults reporting high levels of anxiety. With so many circumstances out of our control, fear and anxiety can be overwhelming, leading to stress, emotional exhaustion and difficulty coping. The pandemic has also led to a collective sense of grief from our loss of normalcy, social connections and the world as we knew it.
COPD Management in Older Adults with Heart Diseases or Diabetes
This handout provides information regarding the management of COPD in older adults with an emphasis on patients who have heart diseases or diabetes.
Outpatient Management of Constipation in Older Adults
This handout discusses the diagnosis and treatment of constipation in older adults. Both pharmacologic and non-pharmacological treatments are discussed.
Caregiving in the United States 2020
The report, focusing on family caregivers of adults, reveals that family caregivers are in worse health compared to five years ago, and that personal finances are a concern: 28 percent of family caregivers have stopped saving, 23 percent have taken on more debt. The 2020 study builds on prior efforts (in 1997, 2004, 2009, and 2015) and replicates the new methodology implemented in 2015, allowing for examination of changes to caregiving since the last data collection effort in 2015.
Source: AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC), 2020.
Medication Safety in Older Adults: Updates for 2019
This presentation given by Dr. Nicole. Brandt at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy describes how to safely handle medications in older adults. This lecture also explains recent medication safety and literature updates.
Source: University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, 2019.
https://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/
Shared Decision Making
This interactive learning module discusses the importance of shared decision making between an older adult patient and their healthcare provider. At the end of this module, one should be able to work as an effective member or leader of a health care team that understands shared decision making in various contexts of their culture, health literacy, desired level of participation, and preferences and goals of care. This module provides definitions, various approaches, possible cases, and outcomes of shared decision making in older adults.
Improving Communication with People Who Have Hearing Loss
This handout reviews how to communicate with individuals who have a hearing loss. It discusses effective and ineffective communication methods.