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Prescribing Safely in Geriatrics and Frailty Patients

Duration: 1 Day(s)
CPD Hours: 8
Start Time: 09:15
End Time: 16:30

OVERVIEW

A comprehensive approach to prescribing safely in geriatrics and frailty patients for any clinical setting. The course will explore the most relevant conditions presented in elderly care providing examples, patient cases and an interactive approach with attendees. 

Attended by any professional who is able to prescribe or working toward obtaining a prescribing registration (e.g. Nurses, Junior Doctors and Allied Health Professionals who are likely to encounter this category of patient).
The aim of the course is to allow attendees to explore the most relevant conditions in elderly care with a prescribing approach - so you will be able to identify adverse drug reactions, learn how to use tools to prescribe and de-prescribe safely, and how to manage a patient using a MDT approach.

CONTENT

  • Principles of prescribing
  • Falls
  • Dementia
  • Constipation
  • Urinary Incontinence
  • Parkinsons Disease
  • Anticholinergic Burden
  • Anticoagulants
  • Just in case medications
  • Common adverse drug reactions and drug interactions
  • Polypharmacy
  • De-prescribing tools

AIMS AND OUTCOMES

  • Apply a systematic approach to the early assessment and management of geriatrics and frailty patients from a prescribing point of view.
  • Identify key red flags while prescribing.
  • Management of medications in frailty, falls and delirium, with the exploration of STOPP/START and the ABC calculator.

ATTENDED BY

  • Nurses
  • Junior Doctors
  • Allied Health Professionals

COURSE VENUES / PRICES

Live Online Instructor Led Course

Zoom
12/01/2027
£ 180.00
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