Medication A Case Study

1. In her lecture, Dr. Mary Tinetti (2014) explained that pharmacology and medical treatment has evolved from the 17th century to the 21st century. She focused on polypharmacy within the elderly population and treatment of diseases based on pathology. According to her, understanding the pathology of diseases allowed the medical

This discussion question is based on a case study. As in all case studies, review the facts of the case and consider the various steps of the nursing process in order to address the critical thinking questions.

Medication Administration 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.

Because prescription drugs allow for a multitude of quick benefits, doctors are beginning to unnecessarily overprescribe medications to their pediatric patients. Of these prescription drugs, opioid pain killers, antibiotics, and psychiatric medications are the most commonly overprescribed in child care. For example, opioid prescriptions have increased 300 percent in the past seventeen years (Boerner 20), over 50 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are written each year (Murray 266), and 6.4 million psychiatric prescriptions are given to children between the ages of four and seventeen each year (Johnson 19). The overprescribing of these medications leads to children experiencing unnecessary side effects, increases the chances of addictions, and encourages drug resistance. In this essay, I will be proposing that there should be a (i) government enforced set of extensive regulations and checklists that each patient must fulfill before receiving a prescription and (ii) governmental laws prohibiting careless prescribing by doctors and hold doctors more accountable for the prescriptions they write.

Best Practices to adopt whenever administering medication Andrew Pfaff Nightingale College of Nursing Pharmacology 210 Mr. H 11/24/2017 Best practices to adopt whenever administering medication. Introduction Safe medication practices are key to every nurse since it results to safe medication administration. When medication is not administered correctly it results to adverse drug event which refers

Senior Care and Medication Management Nearly half of seniors do not take their medications when or how they were prescribed. There are mistakes on dosages, methods of delivery, time of delivery, what they should be taken with, and even if they should still be taken. Compounding the issue, most seniors over the age of 65 are taking between 8 and 13 different medications. Put these numbers together and it is no wonder that problems with medication management are one of the leading reasons seniors end up in the emergency room, and is the number one reason seniors end up back in the hospital after being recently discharged. According to a study published in "Pharmacotherapy", nearly 70 percent of hospitalized seniors suffered from at least one

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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

A review of the records reveals the member to be an adult female with a birth date of 03/14/1983. The member has a diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The member’s treating provider, Vickki-Ann Samuel, MD recommended the member continue treatment using the prescription medication Pexeva 30 mg. The carrier

Prescription medications are intended to help individuals not create new problems. When an individual is diagnosed with ADHD they often seek medical attention. Medication will often be prescribed to help this individual manage their ADHD symptoms. However, many of the medications used to treat ADHD are stimulants. These stimulants can have adverse effects on the human body. There are hidden dangers when using ADHD medications such as side effects, addiction, and classification.

I agree that medications should be used as a treatment intervention to treat substance-related disorders if it is supportive and helpful. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is used in combination with counseling and it is primarily used for clients who are dependent on alcohol and opiates (McNeece & DiNitto, 2012). McNeece and DiNitto (2012) notes that MAT reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms by either imitating the actions of the brain’s chemicals (agonists), encourage negative feeling about the substance that is being abused (analogs), or blocks the effects that come with using a substance (antagonist); however, no medication promises a cure. For example, buprenorphine imitates the effects of opioid by restricting the effects, so it

SM moved to Arlington, Texas in October of 2016 from North Carolina after having difficulty living alone without support. He has had medication from his previous primary care provider in North Carolina. He recently attempted to go to the Dallas VA and had difficulty making an appointment in order

The problem with only prescribing Billy with medication is he still had some remaining behavioral problems at school and at home. For example, at school, Billy would still call out answers without raising his hand, or talk to his classmates during silent reading time. Another problem with just prescribing medication is if Billy stops taking it, he will go back to his old behaviors. The prescription only helped Billy focus more and control his impulses. He still needed help in social skills and cooperating at home. Involving Billy’s parents and teacher helps because they see Billy everyday and have to try to control his problems. For his parents, they learn behavioral management. His parents learned techniques to teach the child the behaviors

There is also the issue of many people forgoing certain needs in order to not have to reduce their prescription use. Rather than forcing themselves to space out their medication more than they are supposed to be as prescribed, these people start cost cutting in other areas of their lives. Many will forgo basic needs, such as food, in order to get to a point of affordability of their medication. This cost-cutting generally can occur before the gap, just as drug reduction does, and typically continues through the gap until catastrophic coverage is reached, or until they reach the next year and reset the entire process (Madden and Graves, 2009; Nekhlyudov and Madden, 2011; Zivin and Madden, 2009).

Educational goal: Pt able to verbalize proper medication and diabetes management techniques without assistance at the end of the first treatment session so that they are able to properly manage their medications and diabetes to assist with wound healing and preventing future wounds. Short term goals: Pt to verbalize proper dressing