ASSIGNMENT HELP | Is it safe to rely on your colleague’s chart notes?

John is an 82-year-old male patient with multiple chronic health issues, including mild dementia. He is a well-established patient, but you are seeing him for the first time. He needs all his medications refilled. He cannot remember the names of his medications. The provider who saw him three months ago reconciled his medication list. Is it safe to rely on your colleague’s chart notes? What steps can you take to ensure safe medication prescribing? What are the standards of medication reconciliation by the APRN?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

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References

Jaggi, P., Tomlinson, R., McLelland, K., Ma, W., Manson-McLeod, C., & Bullard, M. J. (2018). Nursing duties and accreditation standards and their impacts: the nursing perspective. Applied Nursing Research, 40, 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2017.12.009

McEvoy, G. K. (2018). Bringing medication prescribing out of the dark: Time for full disclosure. https://doi.org/10.2146/ajhp180153