The dental practice should source or develop the Patient education material such as fact sheets, required patient brochures or fact sheets, including brochures, or to trusted web sites consumer medicines information. Observational audit of dental practitioner’s access to patient medication information and materials at the You should record medicines information distributed to point of care a patient, in their dental record. Examples of prescriptions including a request for the You could establish referral systems with a local pharmacist to supply medicines information pharmacist to inform patients about the medicines Other: prescribed. Alternatively, the dental practitioner can print on the prescription a request for the pharmacist to supply the patient with this information. Developing a medication management plan in partnership with patients and carers An agreed medication management plan is documented and available in the patient’s dental record Non-applicable for dental practices Providing current medicines information to patients in a format that meets their needs whenever new medicines are prescribed or dispensed Information on medicines is provided to patients and carers in a format that is understood and meaningful Action is taken in response to patient feedback to improve medicines information distributed by the health service organisation to patients Non-applicable for dental practices Clinical scenario: Use of medicines A dentist at a busy inner city dental practice treated Omar, a walk-in Communicating with clients about the expected benefits, risks and client with a facial swelling. The dentist had decided to see Omar in options for medicines, including the risks of not taking the medicine. between his regular appointments because of the urgent nature of the the risks of treatment’ was determined to include taking ‘Establishing condition. The dentist noted that English was Omar’s second language, a full medical history and questioning regarding allergies, using but Omar spoke fluently and the dentist was satisfied that Omar was general questions such as, you allergic to anything?’ and ‘Are ‘Have able to understand and give consent for the procedure. you taken this medication before?’ The patient information chart was
The dental practice should source or develop the required patient brochures or fact sheets, including consumer medicines information. You should record medicines information distributed to a patient, in their dental record. You could establish referral systems with a local pharmacist to inform patients about the medicines prescribed. Alternatively, the dental practitioner can print on the prescription a request for the pharmacist to supply the patient with this information. Patient education material such as fact sheets, brochures, or to trusted web sites Observational audit of dental practitioner’s access to patient medication information and materials at the point of care Examples of prescriptions including a request for the pharmacist to supply medicines information Other: Developing a medication management plan in partnership with patients and carers An agreed medication management plan is documented and available in the patient’s dental record Non-applicable for dental practices Providing current medicines information to patients in a format that meets their needs whenever new medicines are prescribed or dispensed Information on medicines is provided to patients and carers in a format that is understood and meaningful Action is taken in response to patient feedback to improve medicines information distributed by the health service organisation to patients Non-applicable for dental practices Clinical scenario: Use of medicines A dentist at a busy inner city dental practice treated Omar, a walk-in client with a facial swelling. The dentist had decided to see Omar in between his regular appointments because of the urgent nature of the condition. The dentist noted that English was Omar’s second language, but Omar spoke fluently and the dentist was satisfied that Omar was able to understand and give consent for the procedure. Communicating with clients about the expected benefits, risks and options for medicines, including the risks of not taking the medicine. ‘Establishing the risks of treatment’ was determined to include taking a full medical history and questioning regarding allergies, using general questions such as, ‘Are you allergic to anything?’ and ‘Have you taken this medication before?’ The patient information chart was
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