Safer Prescribing in General Dental Practice - Sydney

A Comprehensive Update for Safer Prescribing in Your Practice

Patients in your practice will present with an array of complicated medical conditions. Many will be taking various prescription and non-prescription drugs. In addition, new medications and changes to legislation require you to keep up to date to ensure effective patient care.

This one-day course developed by Dr Geraldine Moses will provide clinicians with a comprehensive update for safer prescribing and drug use in dental practice. The day is comprised of five key presentations: update on safe prescribing, medications that impact on dental procedures, dealing with patients who claim a drug allergy, tailored pain management and drug adherence.

Topics

• Update on Medication Safety and Safe Prescribing
  • Know the top 10 contributors to medication error.
  • Write a comprehensive medication history that can prevent AMEs.
  • Recognise error-prone prescribing and situations that predispose to error.
  • Implement processes to prevent prescribing and charting errors.

• Medications that Impact on Dental Procedures
  • Ensure all medications are included in a medication history
  • Assess all medicines for their impact on dental procedures and outcomes.
  • Access authoritative resources regarding medication management
  • Advise patients appropriately on perioperative medication issues.

• Dealing with Patients Who Claim Drug Allergy
  • Understand difference between allergies and adverse drug reactions
  • Know which patients are truly cross-reactive between penicillins and cephalosporins.
  • Develop more accurate history for those claiming a “sulpha allergy.”
  • Explain allergy to one opioid does not exclude use of other opioids
  • Document THREE things in allergy /ADR history

• Drugs Don’t Work in People Who Don’t Take Them – update on Adherence
  • Appreciate the wide range of medicines for which non-adherence continues to be a significant problem
  • Understand the five dimensions of non-adherence.
  • Identify predictors of medication non-adherence.
  • Apply motivational interviewing skills to assess and assist medication adherence.
  • Explain the implications of non-adherence on medication use in the community.

• Tailoring Pain Management to the Individual Patient
  • Compare safety and efficacy of commonly used analgesics
  • Explain varying risk profile between different NSAIDs
  • Understand the place in therapy of combination analgesia.
  • Know how analgesic prescribing is altered in paediatric and geriatric patients
  • Know when prescribing opioids for dental pain is appropriate and when it should be avoided.