TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Analgesics, Opioid/administration & dosage/adverse effects/therapeutic use
KW - drug tolerance
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Ileostomy/adverse effects/methods/nursing
KW - Opioid-Related Disorders/etiology/prevention & control
KW - Pain, Postoperative/drug therapy/nursing/prevention & control
KW - Patient Discharge/standards
KW - Patient Education as Topic/methods/standards
KW - Patient Safety/standards
KW - Prescription Drug Misuse/adverse effects/prevention & control
KW - Prescription Drugs/adverse effects/therapeutic use
KW - Reoperation/adverse effects/nursing
AU - M. Costello
A1 - 
AB - Patients expect and deserve adequate postoperative pain relief. Opioid analgesics are widely used and effective in controlling postoperative pain, but their use poses risks that many patients don't understand and that all too often result in adverse outcomes. Inappropriate and often dangerous use of prescription medication has increased sharply in the past two decades in the United States. Patients and caregivers must have an adequate understanding of safe use, storage, and disposal of opioids to prevent adverse drug events in patients and others. Nurses play a key role in providing this patient education. This article provides a case study that highlights the risks and important aspects of opioid medication use in the postoperative patient.
BT - The American Journal of Nursing
C5 - Opioids & Substance Use
CP - 11
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000473315.02325.b4
IS - 11
JF - The American Journal of Nursing
N2 - Patients expect and deserve adequate postoperative pain relief. Opioid analgesics are widely used and effective in controlling postoperative pain, but their use poses risks that many patients don't understand and that all too often result in adverse outcomes. Inappropriate and often dangerous use of prescription medication has increased sharply in the past two decades in the United States. Patients and caregivers must have an adequate understanding of safe use, storage, and disposal of opioids to prevent adverse drug events in patients and others. Nurses play a key role in providing this patient education. This article provides a case study that highlights the risks and important aspects of opioid medication use in the postoperative patient.
PP - United States
PY - 2015
SN - 1538-7488; 0002-936X
SP - 50
EP - 56
EP - 
T1 - Prescription Opioid Analgesics: Promoting Patient Safety with Better Patient Education
T2 - The American Journal of Nursing
TI - Prescription Opioid Analgesics: Promoting Patient Safety with Better Patient Education
U1 - Opioids & Substance Use
U2 - 26510070
U3 - 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000473315.02325.b4
VL - 115
VO - 1538-7488; 0002-936X
Y1 - 2015
ER -