Clinician education
Looking for evidence-based educational resources to improve your prescribing practices? Explore the resources below to learn more about how to deprescribe effectively to deliver optimal patient outcomes.
Making It Happen: Deprescribing Education Program
“Making It Happen: Deprescribing Education Program” is an evidence-informed, interactive online course developed to increase clinicians’ awareness, knowledge and skills around deprescribing.
This program was created by expert clinicians and educators in deprescribing from Dalhousie University’s Optimizing Therapy Through Collaboration (OPTx) team, alongside frontline clinicians, students, and patients with support from a Dalhousie Pharmacy Endowment Fund grant.
Who is this Course For?
Primary care clinicians and trainees, including family physicians, clinical nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists.
Why Take This Course?
This course uses interactive activities, videos from primary care providers, key concept summaries, opportunities for self-reflection and a patient case exercise, to help learners:
Become better at identifying deprescribing opportunities
Engage patients in the deprescribing process
Discover evidence-informed tools to deprescribe effectively
Safely develop, implement and monitor a deprescribing plan through interprofessional collaboration
Polypharmacy and deprescribing online module by Bruyère Research Institute
This module will help improve your understanding of polypharmacy and provide you with an approach for deprescribing. You will learn how polypharmacy develops over time, as well as how to recognize common drug-induced symptoms and prescribing cascades. Throughout the module you will apply an approach for deprescribing to a fictional case.
Educational whiteboard videos
Here are three short and fun whiteboard videos that provide information about deprescribing. The first video provides an overview of deprescribing, while the others focus on sedative-hypnotics and proton pump inhibitors. Each video runs for 3 minutes and provides tips and evidence-based tools for deprescribing.
Another reason to watch these short videos : they increase healthcare providers’ self-efficacy for deprescribing! Read the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society publication here. Don’t wait any longer - click on the links below to watch the videos!
Overcoming barriers to deprescribing
Deprescribing isn't hard! Here we bust 5 myths about deprescribing and introduce the next three videos on how to deprescribe sedative-hypnotics, proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) and opioids.
How to deprescribe sleeping pills
How to engage patients, choose viable alternatives to sedative-hypnotics and start a tapering protocol.
How to deprescribe proton pump inhibitors
Why you should deprescribe proton pump inhibitors, how to manage patients expectations and concerns, alternatives to treat acid reflux disease and appropriate tapering protocols.
Video: How to deprescribe opioids for chronic non-cancer pain- Why and how to deprescribe opioid medication used for chronic non-cancer pain
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