Identifying and Safely Stopping High-Risk Medications

[ "Identify the highest-priority Beers Criteria medications and their specific harms in older adults", "Apply the deprescribing process: identify, prioritize, taper vs stop, monitor", "Distinguish medications requiring tapering from those that can be stopped abruptly", "Recognize cascade prescribing and break the cycle at the source" ] Connect Identifying and Safely Stopping High-Risk Medications to bedside cues you will reassess first: vitals trends, work of breathing, perfusion, mentation, and pain or ischemic equivalents when relevant. NCLEX items often reward recognizing when subtle instability outweighs reassurance, then selecting nursing actions that protect airway, circulation, and neurologic status before routine tasks.