There was someone looking at the same patient from a different angle.

I've created a magazine called 'HONO's Bookshelf' to collect articles I've read and loved by people I've connected with on note.
It's a place where I introduce notes that moved me, using my own words.

At first, I only posted my own content, but as I continued using note, I started interacting with many different people...

Among those interactions, the number of articles I love grew❤️
Gradually, I felt like I wanted to introduce them☺️

Articles I was glad I read and wanted to share with someone.
——I'd like to start introducing those pieces one by one from now on.

For this memorable first installment, I'm featuring an article by
Irodori no Shi, a convalescent rehabilitation nurse.

And, without any exaggeration, she is also the person who taught me that 'note is fun'💕

🌸Featured Article

💛Why this article moved me

Actually, this article was born froma question HONO asked Irodori-san.

'The success of medication management is 80% determined bythe assessment before introduction, rather than the actions taken after.'

When I read this, I was struck by a realization.

As a pharmacist in a convalescent ward,
I am always thinking about 'how to get the patient to take this medication'. Should I use a pill organizer, a medication calendar, self-management, or nurse-led management?

But what Irodori-san was writing about was
somethingmuch further upstream.

Cognitive function assessment (I was struck by her note that HDS-R/MMSE are just for reference). Assessment by type of higher brain dysfunction. And the point that '

habituation is the key to successful medication, more so than memory'.

——I was looking at the 'medicine'.
Irodori-san was looking at 'the person's life and abilities'.

There is someone looking at the same patient from a different angle.
I felt very saved by that realization.

Convalescent care is 'the place where people return home'.
Even if I think about it alone as a pharmacist, I won't find the answer.
I have to go and properly ask what the nurses, rehab staff, and registered dietitians are seeing from their respective angles.

This article gave me the 'courage to go and ask'.

💌 I want this to reach people like this

• Ward nurses struggling with medication management——The 6 assessment items, you can use them starting tomorrow

• Fellow pharmacists working in convalescent care——What we are looking at might only be half of the medication

• All multidisciplinary professionals involved in discharge support——I want to share the perspective of "80% before introduction"

✨ About Irodori no Uta-san

Irodori no Uta-san is a nurse who dearly loves convalescent rehabilitation nursing.

“Do not miss the 'moment when a person returns' found in a patient's expressions, gestures, and unspoken actions; pick it up, expand it, and support it”——She shares her message based on this belief.

Armed with vinyl tape and masking tape, she is someone who turns a patient's "I can't" into "I did it."
She loves analysis and trial and error, and for a patient with hemiplegia who cannot use a urinal well, she is the type of person who would even modify a comfort urinal.

Irodori-san, thank you for always sharing the scenery of the clinical site.
Next time, I would like to properly return the favor by sharing "the scenery that pharmacists see."

I wonder who I should introduce next 🌸
Let's meet again at HONO's bookshelf.