Factors that affect health-care workers' practices of medication administration to aged care residents with swallowing difficulties: An Australia-wide survey study.

Objectives: To understand the barriers and facilitators of medication administration to aged care residents with swallowing difficulties.

Methods: Health-care workers in aged care facilities across Australia involved in medication administration to residents completed an online survey.

Results: Of 355 respondents, 90.

Appropriateness of oral dosage form modification for aged care residents: a video-recorded observational study.

Background Dosage forms of oral medications are frequently modified in aged care facilities by crushing/splitting tablets or opening capsules to facilitate medication administration for residents with swallowing difficulties. These practices pose safety concerns including the risk of adverse events resulting from loss of dose during transfer and alteration in the rate of absorption. Objective To identify the incidence, methods, and appropriateness of oral dosage form modification practices in aged care facilities.

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? A review of strategies for making pills easier to swallow.

Solid oral dosage forms such as tablets and capsules are generally the preferred method of drug delivery due to their convenience, cost, and acceptability. However, for many people, it can be a challenge to swallow solid oral medications, even those with healthy swallowing function. This review describes current strategies available to facilitate medication administration to otherwise healthy people with pill-swallowing difficulties.

Nurse experiences of medication administration to people with swallowing difficulties living in aged care facilities: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.

Objective: To identify nurses' experiences of administering oral medications to residents of aged care facilities (ACFs) with swallowing difficulties.

Introduction: Administering medicines to older people with swallowing difficulties is a challenging task. Nurses frequently modify oral medications e.

CPD Aligned to Competency Standards to Support Quality Practice.

As medication experts, pharmacists are key members of the patient's healthcare team. Pharmacists must maintain their competence to practice to remain responsive to the increasingly complex healthcare sector. This paper seeks to determine how competence training for pharmacists may enhance quality in their professional development.

Nurses' experiences of medication administration to people with swallowing difficulties in aged care facilities: a systematic review protocol.

The objective of this review is to identify the experiences of nurses in administering oral medications to residents of aged care facilities with swallowing difficulties.More specifically, the review question is:What problems do nurses experience when administering oral medicines to people with swallowing difficulties living in aged care facilities?

Medicines administration for residents with dysphagia in care homes: A small scale observational study to improve practice.

Background: In the UK, 69.5% of residents in care homes are exposed to one or more medication errors and 50% have some form of dysphagia. Hospital research identified that nurses frequently crush tablets to facilitate swallowing but this has not been explored in care homes.

Drug administration guides in dysphagia.

Background: Patients with dysphagia are more likely to suffer medication administration errors than those without swallowing difficulties.

Aim: To evaluate the use of individualised medication administration guides (I-MAGs) for patients with dysphagia on one stroke ward over six months.

Method: A specialist pharmacist in dysphagia designed a software package supported with data on national guidelines on administering medicines to this group, which enabled the pharmacist to create I-MAGs.