Wed 20 Mar 2024
SHPA Webinar | MedsAware: Deprescribing action week 2024
MedsAware is SHPA’s Deprescribing Action Week, raising awareness around polypharmacy and deprescribing. Deprescribing describes the process of discontinuing medicines that are no longer required, or for which the risk of harm outweighs the benefits.
MedsAware 2024 seeks to empower Australians and their carers, together with pharmacists with specialty skills working in care teams, to manage every medicines regime to ensure it is current, effective and safe. The theme for MedsAware 2024, Ask because you care, is about empowering older Australians, Australians living with a disability, and their carers, to ask health professionals: "Could any of these medicines be doing more harm than good?".
Co-presented by Dr Justin Turner, deprescribing researcher, pharmacist and Senior Lecturer at Monash University's Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, and Tara Quirke, Registered Nurse, Aged Care and Dementia Consultant, Advocate and Carer, this webinar build on the MedsAware 2024 theme, focusing on consumer engagement and communication about medication-related harm and the importance of shared-decision making in deprescribing.
The learning objectives for this webinar are:
- Define deprescribing
- Explain how psychotropic medicines can be used in practice
- Describe opportunities for deprescribing of psychotropic medicines
- Explain the importance of consumer engagement and shared decision-making in deprescribing
- Demonstrate effective communication skills when discussing deprescribing with patients and carers
- Share consumer and practitioner perspectives on psychotropic medicine deprescribing in practice, including challenges and successes
| Members | Non-members | |
| Registration price | FREE | FREE |
To facilitate ease of CPD recording for this activity, SHPA members are encouraged to register through the SHPA website for this webinar.
For all other attendees, please register for this webinar directly with Zoom, HERE.
Presenters
Dr Justin Turner, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic
Dr Justin Turner has extensive experience providing patient care and leading research across aged care, primary care, tertiary care and academia in Australia, Europe and North America. His research seeks to answer the question, “How can we optimise medication use in older adults?” Dr Turner’s passion for improving the way we use medications is built upon his experiences caring for older adults in hospitals and residential aged-care facilities.
Dr Turner is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University, and is a member of the executive committee of the Australian Deprescribing Network. Before this role, he worked at the University of Montreal, Canada, and was the Co-director of the Canadian Deprescribing Network. He led the SaferMedsNL initiative to engage and educate people living in Newfoundland and Labrador about medication-related harm and the importance of deprescribing.
Tara Quirke, Registered Nurse; Aged Care and Dementia Consultant; Advocate and Carer, Brisbane, Qld
This webinar is free for all SHPA members and non-members. Please register for the webinar directly with Zoom, HERE.
To facilitate ease of CPD recording for this activity, SHPA members are encouraged to register through the SHPA website.
This activity has been accredited for 1 hour of Group-1 CPD (or 1 CPD credit), suitable for inclusion in an individual pharmacist’s CPD plan.
The accreditation number is S2024/13.
The program addresses pharmacist competency standards, including:
- Standard 2.1.1 Respect the personal characteristics, rights, preferences, values, beliefs, needs and cultural and linguistic diversity of patients and other clients, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Standard 3.1.1 Obtain relevant health and medicines information
- Standard 3.2.4 Prescribe medicines
- Standard 3.3.3 Document clinical review findings and changes in medication management
(National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia, 2016)
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