Fundamentals of Nursing, 9e
Fundamentals of Nursing, 9e
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ISBN: 9780323327404
Author: Patricia A. Potter RN MSN PhD FAAN, Anne Griffin Perry RN EdD FAAN, Patricia Stockert RN BSN MS PhD, Amy Hall RN BSN MS PhD CNE
Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Whether Mrs. M is allergic to morphine or not.

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Mrs. M is administered three doses of 0.5 mg of morphine by patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) device. Mrs. M is started vomiting and stated that she is feeling out of her head. Her chest pain is rated as 3 on a pain scale of 0 to 10. She is breathing properly with the help of 2 L of oxygen and her lung sound is clear to auscultation. Her husband is worried about his wife and he wants to stop her morphine medication as she may get addicted to this drug.

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Morphine is an analgesic drug belongs to the opioid family. It acts directly on the central nervous system and reduces the pain. It is used to treat acute and chronic pain. In the given case, Mrs. M is not allergic to drug morphine but she might have adverse effects of this drug. The adverse effects of morphine include dysphoria, euphoria, vomiting, nausea, and light headedness. The other common side effect of this drug is feeling that Mrs. M is out of her head.

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Thus, Mrs. M is not allergic to morphine drug but the adverse effects of this drug may lead to symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, euphoria, and dysphoria.

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