Antidepressants nursing

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Pharmacology cheat sheet 💊 All you need to know about SSRIs and TCAs. The most important info for student nurses and pharmacy students to be aware of. This medication cheat sheet compares two of the most common antidepressants and includes the following med facts that pharmacists and nurses should know: • Suffixes • Mechanism of action • Side effects • Nursing considerations • Patient counselling • Benefits of the drug class Share this handy comparison with your friends and colleagues....

How many of these nursing considerations for antidepressants do you know? 🎉 This handy overview shows the mechanism of action, side effects and nursing considerations for SSRIs, TCAs and MAOIs. ⭐ Save this sheet for later ⭐ SSRIs such as citalopram and sertraline can cause hyponatraemia so blood tests should check for this. They can also cause insomnia if given too late in the day, and therefore are best taken in the morning. Lastly, they can cause GI bleeding - this effect is cumulative…

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In the past decade, the effects of antidepressants on the QT interval and the subsequent risk of cardiac arrhythmias have become a notable concern. When the FDA released a drug safety communication about the risk of abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart with citalopram, providers learned to consider this risk as not only an adverse effect of a specific medication, but also the consequence of drug-drug interactions.