Nurses' Perspectives on Family Caregiver Medication Management Support and Deprescribing.

ABSTRACT: Nurses who care for patients with life-limiting illness operate at the interface of family caregivers (FCGs), patients, and prescribers and are uniquely positioned to guide late-life medication management, including challenging discussions about deprescribing. The study objective was to describe nurses' perspectives about their role in hospice FCG medication management. Content analysis was used to analyze qualitative interviews with nurses from a parent study exploring views on medication management and deprescribing for advanced cancer patients. Ten home and inpatient hospice nurses, drawn from 3 hospice agencies and their referring hospital systems in New England, were asked to describe current practices of medication management and deprescribing and to evaluate a pilot tool to standard

SUBMITTER: Tjia J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7561076 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature