Pharmacology for the Rehab Clinician

Course overview

One of the challenges facing rehab professionals is the in-depth understanding of the patients medication profile. This presentation on medication management will include discussions on polypharmacy, compliance issues, and health tips to help improve patient understanding with compliance. We will review medication classifications actions and interaction of drugs commonly taken by the patient undergoing rehabilitation recognizing the influence of OTC medications, supplements, and food on therapeutic drug levels. The use of electronic medication platforms for identification of medications and interactions as a useful tool for the clinician will be introduced. The role of the rehab clinician for awareness of actions and interactions for the patient taking opioid based killers will be addressed. This course will use lecture with Power point slides, video tutorials of clinical drug actions with discussion of the clinical interactions with other drugs by identifying duplicate and antagonist medications including the role of OTC medications and supplements. Activities to identify and utilize electronic based apps to quickly identify unknown medications and interactions will be engaged.