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Overview
Goals and Outcomes
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Overview
Overview
The physiological changes associated with aging affect pharmacokinetics, influencing how drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted in older adults. Nurses and other healthcare providers frequently care for patients who take multiple medications. Taking numerous medications puts patients at significant risk for serious complications, including death.

 

Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
The goal of this course is to educate nurses about polypharmacy in older adults.
After taking this course, you should be able to:
  • Identify factors that lead to polypharmacy in older adults.
  • Choose approaches to simplify drug regimens in older adults.
  • State physiologic changes which place older adults are at risk for adverse drug reactions.
Details
Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 3/13/2023

REL-ACU-0-POA

Course Author

Elizabeth Kellerman

MSN, RN

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.