Integrating the 2019 AGS Beers Criteria into NP practice: A stepwise approach.

The American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria, designed to prevent the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications to older adult patients, were updated in 2019. This article provides a stepwise protocol on how to incorporate the Beers Criteria guidelines into NP practice using a case study model.

Deprescribing: Polypharmacy management in older adults with comorbidities.

In today's clinical landscape, the simultaneous use of multiple drugs to treat a single condition has become a major patient safety issue. Recent evidence suggests a need to identify deprescribing opportunities in the management of polypharmacy. NPs, as clinical gatekeepers, are in a key position to spearhead deprescribing best practices, specifically as they relate to older adults with multiple medication regimens.

In Want of Water: Quenching the Thirst of Body and Spirit.

An experienced nurse describes the dehydration she observed in an African community during a short-term mission experience. Oral rehydration and spiritual hydration are discussed, and oral rehydration resources are provided.