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Delaware Valley Geriatric Education Center (DVGEC)Each module has its own set of learning objectives.
The following provides an overview of content for each clinical
module.
Module 3
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Wrong Things Happen with Medications: Risk and Prevention
Addresses: This is one of the modules in the Teaching and Learning to Care: Training for Caregivers in Long Term Care (TLC for LTC) series. TLC for LTC includes a total of six clinical modules and is directed to meeting the needs of Staff Development Educators, those in long term care who are responsible for staff education, and instructors or those who teach an individual class session. Medications are an important and integral aspect of health care and health promotion. However, medications can often be the source of problems because of misuse, misunderstanding and adverse effects related to them. This module reviews the reasons why elderly clients are at a greater risk for adverse effects of medications and why medication management is so important to their health and well being. It also identifies the potential adverse effects of medications among clients and provides an understanding of safe and effective medication usage in general. In the video, viewers are challenged to find the medication errors in a series of scenarios and are then led through them in a stop-action mode to consider the circumstances that create risk for adverse events. This is a self contained instructional module of 20-30 minutes and includes all materials for planning and conducting staff education: planning materials for the staff development educator, all materials for the instructor including overheads and video, and handouts for participants. Module Three: Objectives: At the end of this module, direct care staff will be able to:
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