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COMMUNITY-HEALTH-WORK5 MIN READ

Brown Bag Review Walkthrough

Prepare and conduct a brown bag medicine review using plain-language, show-me prompts.

The chart lists two medicines, but the home has bottles, a pill organizer, and supplements that may not match the record. Brown bag review: gather everything, ask show-me questions, document discrepancies, and route clinical decisions. The common shortcut is to ask, "Are you taking these as prescribed?" That misses double dosing, stopped medicines, cost rationing, old bottles, supplements, and misunderstanding. Gather Ask the client to place all prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, supplements, inhalers, liquids, injections, topicals, and pill boxes on one table. The review starts with the real home inventory. The chart is a reference point, not the truth…

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