OVERVIEW

Clinical Considerations: Older Adults Taking Multiple Medications is organized by CEUfast, Inc..

Last Updated: 1/23/2025
This course will be updated or discontinued on or before Saturday, January 23, 2027

Outcomes
92% of participants will have more awareness and knowledge about the prevalence of older adults taking multiple medications.

Objectives
After completing this course, the learner will be able to:

  • Identify the prevalence of older adults taking multiple medications.
  • Describe individual and societal costs of older adults taking multiple medications.
  • Explain the process of assessment of medication use in older adults.
  • Outline a process for evaluating multiple medications for older adults.
  • Summarize adverse events, such as falls and delirium, that older adults taking multiple medications may experience.
  • Consider pharmacological management of multiple health conditions that older adults experience.
  • Apply principles associated with managing multiple medications to a clinical case.
Credits

Nationally Accredited
CEUFast, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. ANCC Provider number #P0274.

  • 3 Contact Hours
  • TARGET AUDIENCE

    NursingClinical Nurse SpecialistClinical PharmacologyLicensed Vocational Nurses (LVN)Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    SPECIALITIES

    Pharmacy and MedicineClinical Pharmacology

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