{"id":2701,"date":"2013-12-27T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2013-12-27T07:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:36:06","slug":"nursing-home-residents-families-must-alert-medications-given-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/nursing-home-residents-families-must-alert-medications-given-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Home Residents and Families Must Be Alert to Medications Given to Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nursing home residents often develop pneumonia.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Pneumonia is a common infection that is too often deadly in the elderly.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung\/tc\/pneumonia-topic-overview\">Pneumonia<\/a> is just one of the many medical ailments that afflict nursing home residents. Family practice physicians taking care of elderly residents often prescribe a variety of different medications with different dosages.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Administrations of medication is the responsibility of the nursing home and its personnel.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Frequently, the medication prescribed is not given in the correct dosages, which can be harmful or deadly to residents.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Some residents can develop <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toxicity\">toxicity<\/a> symptoms from overdosing with prescribed medication.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The overdosing of prescription medicine can lead to side effects such as shortness of breath, other complications and even death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nursing home residents and families must be aware of all medication prescribed to the resident.<span>\u00a0<\/span>To double check what nursing home personnel is prescribing, it would be appropriate to ask if the medicine given is correctly dosed.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>That question should be posed often, especially if family members notice a change in dosage or in the medication itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/nursing-home-residents-families-must-alert-medications-given-residents\/#more-2701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nursing home residents often develop pneumonia.\u00a0Pneumonia is a common infection that is too often deadly in the elderly.\u00a0Pneumonia is just one of the many medical ailments that afflict nursing home residents. Family practice physicians taking care of elderly residents often prescribe a variety of different medications with different dosages.\u00a0 Administrations of medication is the responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nursing-home-abuse","category-nursing-home-litigation","category-pharmaceutical-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nursing Home Residents and Families Must Be Alert to Medications Given to Residents &#8212; 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