Patient education is a huge part of the nurse’s job and usually this involves providing information and instructions regarding new medications, procedures or treatments. Next time you assess a patient and discover they have dentures, don’t just skim over this. Stop and question them about how well they fit, the type of adhesive they use, how much they use and whether they have experienced any symptoms of neuropathy since using denture adhesive creams. In a recent interview with Eric Chaffin, Esq. of Bernstein Liebhard LLP, I discovered a little known fact about the risks of denture adhesive creams and consumer injuries. Most denture adhesive creams contain zinc. Overuse of these…
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Nurses Beware: Antibiotics Linked to Tendon Rupture
Here’s a story from The Nursing Site.com… In July of 2008, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) began notifying the manufacturers of fluroquinlolone antimicrobial medications that they need to add a Boxed Warning about possible tendonitis and tendon ruptures to the product labels on these medications. The FDA also asks that patient education materials be distributed when the medication is dispensed. Tendon ruptures from these medications date back at least as far as 1997. From November 1997 to March 2007, the FDA has received reports of 336 cases of tendon ruptures in patients taking these medications. Fluroquinlolone is a broad spectrum antimicrobial medication used to treat bacterial infections in adults such…