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Home Health Quality Campaign – Medication Toolkit
The goal for everyone working with home care patients is to achieve safe medication usage while promoting the patient’s independence. Although multiple strategies and the effort of many home health care team members may be required to achieve this goal, this could easily be the difference between the patient remaining in the home and returning to the hospital. Below are tools available to help reach this goal:
Medication Reconciliation Process
High Alert Medication Education
Medication Management Clinical Record Review
System Approach to Medication Reconciliation
Medication Schedules
Clinical Guide to Putting Medication Management in Practice
Phone Monitoring Assessment Guides
PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) Worksheet
Example PDSA Worksheet
Blank PDSA Worksheet
Teach-Back Card Set
Drug Interaction Checker