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