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Nurses in municipal care of the elderly act as pharmacovigilant intermediaries : a qualitative study of medication management
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- Johansson-Pajala, Rose-Marie (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Hälsa och välfärd
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- Jorsäter Blomgren, Kerstin (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Hälsa och välfärd
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- Bastholm-Rahmner, Pia (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- 2016-02-04
- 2016
- English.
- In: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0281-3432 .- 1502-7724. ; 34:1, s. 37-45
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Objective: To explore registered nurses' experience of medication management in municipal care of the elderly in Sweden, with a focus on their pharmacovigilant activities. Design: A qualitative approach using focus-group discussions was chosen in order to provide in-depth information. Data were analysed by qualitative content analysis. Setting: Five focus groups in five different long-term care settings in two regions in Sweden. Subject: A total of 21 registered nurses (RNs), four men and 17 women, aged 27-65 years, with 4-34 years of nursing experience. Results: The findings reveal that RNs in municipal long-term care settings can be regarded as vigilant intermediaries in the patients' drug treatments. They continuously control the work of staff and physicians and mediate between them, and also compensate for existing shortcomings, both organizational and in the work of health care professionals. RNs depend on other health care professionals to be able to monitor drug treatments and ensure medication safety. They assume expanded responsibilities, sometimes exceeding their formal competence, and try to cover for deficiencies in competence, experience, accessibility, and responsibility-taking. Conclusion: The RNs play a central but also complex role as vigilant intermediaries in the medication monitoring process, including the issue of responsibility. Improving RNs' possibility to monitor their patients' drug treatments would enable them to prevent adverse drug events in their daily practice. New strategies are justified to facilitate RNs' pharmacovigilant activities.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
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- Adverse drug event
- drug monitoring
- elderly
- general practice
- nurse's role
- patient safety
- pharmacovigilance
- qualitative research
- Sweden
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