Use of anxiolytics and hypnotic drugs.

Nursing Homes | July 1, 1993| | Copyright

Toward a more cautious approach, as per OBRA

All drugs prescribed for the nursing home patient may be considered to be psychoactive, in that they may affect the central nervous system (CNS) (Table 1). Nurses may ascribe most of these CNS effects to underlying disease processes rather than to these medications. That is why one of the most important assessments to be made by the charge nurse, with the consultant pharmacist's input, is whether a drug effect is involved. The question is, "How did this medicine affect the patient within the first several days to weeks after ...

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