{"id":124600,"date":"2022-11-01T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=124600"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:10:30","slug":"sackville-nursing-home-has-lowest-rate-of-inappropriate-anti-psychotic-use-in-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/sackville-nursing-home-has-lowest-rate-of-inappropriate-anti-psychotic-use-in-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackville nursing home has lowest rate of inappropriate anti-psychotic use in province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Brunswick nursing homes have the third highest use of antipsychotics deemed \u201cpotentially inappropriate\u201d compared to their provincial counterparts, according to research done by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cihi.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian Institute of Health Information<\/a> (CIHI). But a Sackville nursing home stands out for its low \u201cpotentially inappropriate\u201d use of the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>CIHI looked into how many people living in long term care homes were taking antipsychotic drugs without a diagnosis of psychosis. Antipsychotics are sometimes used to help control patients with behavioural challenges brought on by conditions like dementia. But those uses can pose added risks, such as an increase in falls, says Drew Nursing Home director Linda Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse of antipsychotics for dementia is what normally is not appropriate,\u201d says Shannon. \u201cIt\u2019s not a good use of an antipsychotic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CIHI found rates of potentially inappropriate use in New Brunswick ranging from 71.4% at Villa St-Joseph in Tracadie, to 7.3 per cent at the Drew Nursing Home in Sackville. The average rate in New Brunswick was 30.3 per cent, above the national average of 22 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon says the reason for the low rate of inappropriate use at the Drew could have something to do with the resources in the nursing home, which accommodates up to 118 residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big reason that our use of antipsychotic is low at the Drew is because we have a nurse practitioner here four and a half days a week,\u201d says Shannon. \u201cOur nurse practitioner evaluates every resident as they come in, sometimes they may not be on an appropriate use of an antipsychotic. And at that point, she would look at their medications and adjust accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shannon says the Drew\u2019s doctor, who visits the home one day a week, is also very involved in medications for resident patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very progressive physician in that field,\u201d says Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>The Drew has been lucky to have a nurse practitioner for about 11 years, says Shannon. Not all nursing homes have one. \u201cWe applied for the position and we were fortunate to have got [it],\u201d says Shannon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CHMA story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Brunswick nursing homes have the third highest use of antipsychotics deemed \u201cpotentially inappropriate\u201d compared to their provincial counterparts, according to research done by the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI). But a Sackville nursing home stands out for its low \u201cpotentially inappropriate\u201d use of the drugs. CIHI looked into how many people living in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":124604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223],"tags":[20244,20243,7162,20242,3619],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124612,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124600\/revisions\/124612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124600"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=124600"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=124600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}