Outbildad personal i hemtjänsten utsätter vårdtagaren för risk. Bättre kunskaper i läkemedelshantering måste krävas
Unqualified home care aides put the patient at risk. Better knowledge concerning drug administration must be required
Författare
Summary, in English
medical tasks. A study in the city of Malmö in 1993, repeated in 1998, shows that 95% of the health care assistants are engaged in the administration of
medication. The studies demonstrate that health care assistants have inadequate knowledge not only about medicines and their administration but also about common diseases and their symptoms. Delegating the task of medication administration to non-nurse personnel within the social services
therefore entails an increased risk for the patient.
Avdelning/ar
- Geriatric Medicine
- Geriatrik
Publiceringsår
2002
Språk
Svenska
Sidor
83-1178
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Läkartidningen
Volym
99
Issue
11
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Swedish Medical Association
Ämne
- Gerontology, specializing in Medical and Health Sciences
Nyckelord
- Human
- Home Health Aides: standards
- Home Care Services: manpower
- English Abstract
- Continuing
- Nursing
- Education
- Clinical Competence
- Home Health Aides: education
- Home Care Services: standards
- Pharmaceutical Preparations: administration & dosage
- Pharmaceutical Preparations: adverse effects
- Pharmaceutical Preparations: contraindications
- Risk Factors
- Sweden
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Geriatric Medicine
- Geriatrics
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0023-7205