Question

Requirement: Answer the following questions: 1. Using the acronym, "A.C.T.L.O.N," identify and explain the sequence the tool recommends you follow to address all medication problems? (6 marks) 2. For each situation below, answer the following questions: a. In your own words, explain the main problem/challenge faced in this situation. (2 marks for each situation) b. What section in the "Medication Problem A.C.T.I.O.N. Plan" resource would you turn to when addressing the situation? (1 mark for each situation) C. What action would you take to assist your client? Record your answer for part "C" as if you are documenting in the client's record. (3 marks for each situation) Situations: 1. Your client has Parkinson's disease. He tries to administer his own oral medication. His wife, who usually helps him, is often not home for his afternoon dose because your visit is her respite time. 2. Your client is 84 and has rheumatoid arthritis. Each week the RN distributes her medication for each day in a docette. Today your client's joints seem very inflamed and she asks you to open her docette for her. 3. According to the care plan for a new client, he is on an anti-inflammatory medication that has been prescribed to be taken bid. When you try to remind him to take his medication, he refuses, claiming he is fine. While reading the label on your client's medication, you notice that the strength of the medication is different from the care plan. Your client claims that his meds were changed over the weekend after visiting the medical clinic.

Answer 1

A.C.T.I.O.N means:

A- assess or observe the situation.

C- Contact the supervisor

T- talk to family member if present

I - identify how we can help the patient or client

O- Open the chart and document the problem.

N- note to follow up the patient.

It is a resource guide provided to home workers when they encounter medication related problems.

each section of this screening tool and resource guide is colour coded and if the problem is identified on the screening tool then one must go to the corresponding colour section of the resource guide and start A.C.T.I.O.N plan

The following are the different sections of the resource guide with their respective colour

SECTION A ( red colour)

it includes problems associated with taking medications correctly like dose, frequency, mode of administration , time of taking .

SECTION B (Blue colour)

it includes physical or cognitive problems of the patient

SECTION C (Violet colour)

it includes barriers like the patient is unwilling to take the medications or he/she has expired medications

SECTION D ( yellow colour)

it includes changes in patients condition like changes in behaviour ,mood or bowel patterns etc

SECTION E (green colour)

it includes changes in patients medications like change in dose or frequency.