Essay On Medication Compliance

The intended use of medications is meant to improve a person’ health, it is very important the individual administering medication or self-medicating use the drugs correctly, by following the doctors’ instruction for the medication prescribed. Medication is given to diagnose, treat, and prevent illness. Medication can be very dangerous, which can potentially cause harm or even deaf if it’s not used properly.

A hypothesis about the key issue would be that inappropriate administration of medication can increase the likelihood for medication noncompliance. As a fourth year student, I have learned much from my psychology minor in regards to medication issues and compliance; however have limited experience with psychiatric patients in my clinical practicum. I am also aware and practice the eight rights of medication administration. I am also aware that a nurse should watch patients swallowing medication. Despite this, as a nursing student that is training to become a registered nurse, I found myself in a situation of distraction and confusion. I had thought that water was available at her bedside as I had refilled her cup earlier. Assuming there was

"Children, young people, their parents or legal guardians, and health care professionals in all settings make decisions about medicines based on sound information about risk and benefit. They have access to safe and effective medicines that are prescribed on the basis of the best available evidence" (Caldwell, 2013).

Most people are familiar with prescription medications; almost everyone has taken them at one point or another during their lifetime. Not all prescription drugs are addicting, but a large number of them are. Prescription drug abuse is a disease that has become a major problem in the United States, which affects over six-million Americans. Prescription drug abuse not only affects the individual, but can additionally have far-reaching consequences that affect family, personal health, employment, communities and society as a whole. Research has shown that at least 10% of people prescribed an addictive medication will become dependent on the medicine. Due to prescription drug abuse, states are beginning to monitor doctors who prescribe certain medications, more closely, which may scare some physicians away from prescribing helpful medications to people who truly need them.

The purpose of medicine is as contested of a notion as the term patient. While there are certain ends in which it is clear that medicine seeks to achieve, controversy often arises over how medicine chooses to achieve these certain goals. One such controversy is the treatment of patient-symptoms, more specifically, the role of medication in treating patients. The purpose of this essay is not to discuss the general issues of prescribing medication. Rather, the purpose is

Some of the factors that patients do not adhere to when their healthcare provider tells them too is due to patients being too busy. Often times life is very busy as we all know this but forgetting to take of yourself can have detrimental effects to your health. Some people think they can get better on their own without the help of a doctor so they feel like they will be fine or able to handle any health complication on their own. Another reason is that often people do not understand or they forget what the doctor is telling them about their prescribed treatment regimens and other patients decide to simply not follow it. As stated in the article by Sklar, Min Sen Oh & & Chuen Li, 2008 “Poor communication with healthcare providers was also likely to cause a negative effect on patient’s compliance (Bartlett et al 1984; Apter et al 1998)”. Miscommunication between a doctor and patient is at the root of most adherence problems. Often times patients leave their doctors office not knowing or having the slightest clue to what they should be doing. Instead of asking for help or clarity they just leave. Communication needs to be clear and effective for both the patient and the doctor. Non-adherence is wide spread when it comes to patients not adhering to what professionals tell them. Many patients will have significant risks because they forget,

In order to evaluate and compare medication compliance the patient’s discharge medication reconciliation were compared to patient’s medication list at time of first office visit. Of the patients in population 1 (N=82), 71 were seen back for follow up and 11 never returned. Of the 71 that returned for follow up 97.18% (N=69) were compliant with discharged core measure medications. Population 2 (N=104), 97 were seen back for follow up with 7 never returned. Of the 97 seen back for office follow up 100% (N=97) were compliant with discharged core measure medications. Statistical analysis of the two population did not find a statistically significant difference (p= 0.0991).

Everyday there are children receiving some kind of prescribed drug for psychological problems such as ADHD,anxiety disorder,autism,and many other disorders.However, children that are given prescribed drugs are usually given to them for convenience rather than necessity.Providing a child prescribed drugs at such a young age can lead to problems with their health in the future as well as other harming side effects,also nutrition is often overlooked and drugs prescribed may be doing more harm than good.Further more, children that are diagnosed with a psychological disorder and receive public assistance are more likely to receive off label medication which can be more dangerous. Therefore, children are not capable of sustaining the effects of prescribed medication because some children may be overdiagnosed and drugged for “parent convenience” ,there are dangerous long term side effects to some of

In taking any medication there are always positives and negative side effects. Overprescribing medication and over diagnosing different disease in children has caused these effects to become increasingly prevent in society today. An increasing number of children and teenagers are being prescribed drugs as a “quick fix” rather than treating the root problem.

Medications will be dispensed only when medically necessary (as determined by the administration staff ) and may include but are not limited to nebulizer EPL pens and inhalers. We do not dispense fever reducers pain relievers, cough suppressants antibiotics ear or eye drops or other medications which aid temporary conditions. One of the directors will administer medical lay necessary medications only upon written authorization from parents and proper health care treatment plan from and authorization from the child’s physician. Children are not allowed to keep medications in there backpacks or cubbies. It is at the discretion of the administration as to what is deemed medically necessary

The danger of medication nonadherence also comes in the health outcomes of those who fail to adhere. As explained above, when there is an increase in out-of-pocket spending required to get prescription drugs, there is an increase in noncompliance of medication usage. This increase in noncompliance can lead to an increase in a variety of negative outcomes in health. These can be regression or complication of the illness that was being medicated, emergency room trips and even admission into hospitals. No matter which negative health outcome occurs, it means a decrease in overall health for the Medicare beneficiary (Dalen, 2009; Stuart, 2005; Zhang and Donohue, 2009). This not only puts a strain on the beneficiary, once again spiking stress with illness relapse or hospital issues, but

“The odds of having good health outcomes are 2.88 % higher when patients are adherent” ( DiMatteo, Haskard-Zolnierek & Martin, 2012, p. 75). Nonadherence occurs for many reasons and may or may not be intentional. Nonadherence is defined as the failure to follow prescribed medical advice. Examples of actions considered to be medical advice are: to take medication as prescribed, make behavioral changes such as diet and exercise, keep appointments, and have screenings/testing done. Nonadherence, also called noncompliance also causes frustration of providers and patients, and wastes resources. Rates of nonadherence can be as high as 70% with complex regimens (Martin, Williams & DiMatteo, 2005). Factors in compliance with medical advice include: severity of disease, complexity of regimen, patient knowledge and beliefs, costs incurred by the patient, resource availability, availability of social support, psychological problems, and rapport and communication with healthcare providers.

For my research project I hoping to look at the effects of technology on the adherence of patients to their medication regime and what effects using more technology would bring to try to and get patients to be more adherent to their medications. Medication adherence has been a big topic for many years and many different experiments and methods have been tried in order to try and increase this adherence in patients. When it comes to medication adherence many people do not do very well due to forgetting to take their medication, not wanting to take their medication or even not being able to pay for their medication they need. Past experiments have looked at the effect of things like the practitioner giving the patient a slight touch while emphasizing they stick to the prescribed regime and this experiment showed that with that touch adherence of the patients and

The concept of “deprescribing medications” as mentioned in your paper is an interesting topic. This is a relativity new concept that the use of multiple medications that can increase the risk of adverse drug reactions to the patient. When polypharmacy is apparent, the risk of drug interaction falls hospitalization and death can occur. The APN has a role in the medical profession to start a trend of watching over and deprescribe medication for the polypharmacy patients. While compiling the prescribed medication and the medication the patient consumes the chance that they can overlap each other and cause harm is increased. With the elderly population deprescribing by tapering, stopping, and or discontinuing medication

Non-compliance to prescribed antidiabetic drug treatment has health consequences on both an individual population as well on the general