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I
f your state
requires you to
provide
patients with a list
of all of the medica-
tions they received
or were prescribed
during their stay at
your facility, here's a
free and easy way to
do so. Go to
epocrates.com and
look up the medica-
tions your surgeons,
anesthesiologists
and CRNAs fre-
quently administer
to patients. Your list
might include fen-
tanyl, atropine,
ephedrine, labetolol,
glycopyrrolate and
ondansetron. For
each drug, make several printouts of the free patient education
materials, which cover anticipated results, potential adverse reac-
tions and potential side effects. In the patient's chart, we note which
drugs we gave on a checklist form. We hand that form to the recov-
MEDICATION SERVICES
Which Drugs Did Patients Receive?
• DETAILED DRUG INFORMATION Send patients home with educational handouts
about the medications they received during their stay.
Rose
Ellertson,
BSN,
RN
