Medication A Case Study

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.

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.

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.

Six basic types of ingredients used to formulate OTC brands. Each ingredient targets one of five basic symptoms.

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

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.

Attached to your discharge papers you will find a list of the medications that the doctor wants you to take at home. The prescriptions have already been sent to your pharmacy and the pharmacy will deliver them all to your home this afternoon after 4:00 PM. I will go over each of your medications with you.

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 to refill his medications. He reported that his current plan is to get an appointment with TRICARE for medication management. According to his report, his only psychotropic medication is currently Wellbutrin. While still in North Carolina SM has been taking medication which he received from his primary care provider in North Carolina. SM was also seeing a psychologist once a week, but then abruptly stopped going to him and has not reconnected with

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

The customer indicated that she was diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Ms. Knight has been prescribed Invega 9 MG (use as antipsychotic) and Effexor 3.5 MG (use to treat symptoms associated with anxiety and depression) by Dr. Miriam Ajo, MD at SalusCare. Medication management services are provided by the mentioned institution every three to four months. The customer was hospitalized in September, 2016 because she had a manic episode. She was Baker Act in 2004 and 2007. At the time of the evaluation she denied the presence of suicidal ideation, intent or plans.

Drugs treatment administration is "a particular service or gathering of varied services that advance helpful results for individual patients". The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernisation Act of 2003 pronounced that a Part D support more likely than not built up a medicine treatment administration (MTM) framework for focused recipients. Nevertheless, Part D patrons are permitted to pick their own particular focused on recipients with particular unending infections. Programs must incorporate no less than five of the nine centre incessant conditions, including OA and RA Pharmaceutical consideration administrations as MTM have been demonstrated to enhance patients' clinical, monetary, and humanistic results, and drug adherence

While standing in the laundry room, I watched my mother pace back and forth from the living room to the kitchen in a panic, waiting for a phone call which she knew may never come. Mom bolts to her bedroom to look in the hiding spot where all of the lethal medications my father was taking were hidden. The Medications powerful enough, if I took even one, my heart would stop within an hour. Mother and I knew exactly what he was going to try to do. He was going to try to kill himself.

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.