Polypharmacy & Medication Safety Cheatsheet
Why drugs hit older adults harder, the Beers Criteria, anticholinergic burden, and the high-alert drugs to monitor. One printable page for the LPN/LVN exit exam and NCLEX-PN.
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Free one-page Polypharmacy & Medication Safety cheatsheet for LPN/LVN nursing students — aging pharmacokinetics, the Beers Criteria, anticholinergic burden, high-alert drugs (digoxin, warfarin, insulin, lithium), and the medication review. Print-friendly PDF, NCLEX-PN aligned.
- Why drugs hit older adults harder
- Beers Criteria "avoid" list
- Anticholinergic burden
- High-alert drugs (digoxin, warfarin, lithium)
- "Start low, go slow"
- The medication review
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