Introduction to Drug Info (AKA Hell) | Systematic Approach my Ass | Steps Steps and More Steps | What's this DI Question? (What even is DI?) | Categorize this Response (we went over them twice already) |
---|---|---|---|---|
What is Fee-for-Service
Drug information centers are funded by this type of service
|
What is 7
There are this many steps in the systematic approach
|
- what do you need to know?
- Describe patient - Open-ended (probing) questions - determine if the question is academic, general or patient-specific
How do you obtain demographics (name at least 2)
|
What is availability
A physician wants to know when a drug will be on the market
|
What is demographics
A patients telephone number
|
What is Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting (ADRs)
One of the major responsibilities of a DI practitioner is this type of reporting
|
What is to answer DI questions for healthcare professionals, family, friends, and of course patients
The goal of the Systematic approach is this
|
- utilize appropriate resources
- know various resources - prioritize resources - step-wise approach **- general-to-specific searching** - start broad and go into more detail
Strategizing and searching (name at least 3)
|
What is adverse effects
A patient wants to know if his cough is normal
|
What is Obtaining background information
What is the patient's age, weight, height, what is their condition, illness, what reaction are they having are examples of this step
|
What is evidence-based medicine
Drug info is focused on ______-______ ______, which represents how the information is determined to be accurate.
|
What is Obtain Background information
This is the hardest step in the DI systematic approach.
|
- Know how they want the response (written, typed, verbal)
- reference sources (have solid sources) - organize your information and prepare a response - Summarize findings
Collect, Evaluate and Synthesize (name 2)
|
What is dosing
The IV tech wants to make sure the pediatric patient is being given the right amount of drug
|
What is Search and strategize
I should probably check the Merck index for the answer to this question
|
What is need to know where to find information quick
Drug information is important as pharmacists for this reason.
|
What is True
True or False; Kinetics questions are questions that can be answered by the DI practitioners following the systematic approach
|
- Be confident
- restate the question - BE ACCURATE - Make recommendations - identify limitations and flaws
Communicate the response (name 3)
|
What is Drug-Drug interactions
*bonus points also natural products
A woman is taking melatonin, KAVA, and triazolam. She is now in a coma. Is it because of what she took?
(bonus points if you name two types of DI questions) |
What is obtaining background information
A patient has a dry cough and you ask how long they've had it
|
What are Poison control centers
These DI centers are run by Nurses and Pharmacists
|
What is Demographics, Background information, categorize the question, strategize and research, collect/evaluate/synthesize data, formulate/communicate response, and follow-up
The flow of steps in the systematic approach is this
|
The world may never know
Larry the Lobster or Redwanski?
|
What is conduct search/gather background
*next is to relay response to the patient (normal symptom) **next-next step is to follow up with them to see if the cough disappeared in one to two weeks
A patient comes to you with a dry cough and you found out they recently started an ACE inhibitor
(bonus if you can name next step/s) |
|