333 Search Results for Prescribing Medications and Identifying Side Effects
Pharmacology Case StudiesScenario 1Diagnosis: Sandra is likely experiencing Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with coexisting anxiety, given her symptoms of persistent sadness, anxiety, and an empty mood (Walter et al., 2023). Her increased smoking ind Continue Reading...
Asthma and ER utilization
Asthma
Asthma is a particularly debilitating condition. Asthma is characterized by a tightening in the chest with difficulty in breathing and wheezing. This difficulty in breathing can result, at best, in a decrease in qua Continue Reading...
Medication Reconciliation
Evidence-Based Practice and the Procedural Education of Nurses
Medication reconciliation is a critical issue in healthcare reform. Today, improvement in this area of treatment could have a transformative effect on the curr Continue Reading...
Medication Errors
Over Medication
Overmedication can be described as an inappropriate medical treatment that occurs when a patient takes unnecessary or excessive medications. This may happen because the prescriber is unaware of other medications Continue Reading...
medication errors by nurses. There are six references for this paper.
Health care professionals are responsible for the welfare and safety of their patients. One of the most dangerous and preventable mistakes a nurse can make is a medication error. Continue Reading...
Consequence of Rapid Advances in Science and Technology
Identify A Potential Unintended Consequence Of The Rapid Advances Made In Science And Technology
Potential unintended consequences of rapid advances in science and technology
The purpose of t Continue Reading...
Errors are unavoidable in our everyday routines. Numerous mistakes are part of the changing cycle of psychological-behavioral adjustments that lead to appropriate behavioral abilities. The following of medical directions is an essential element of th Continue Reading...
Nephrotic Syndrome is not a disease. It is a condition that is characterized by damaged glomeruli in the kidney. This damage might be caused by one or more disease. These diseases can be related to the kidney as in Familial Focal Segmental Glomerulos Continue Reading...
VIII. Preliminary Literature Review
The work of Martin, Scahill, Klin and Volkmar (1999) entitled: "Higher-Functioning Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Rates and Patterns of Psychotropic Drugs Use" reports a study in which the frequency, charact Continue Reading...
Prescription, Nonprescription and Herbal Medicines
Prescription, Non-prescription and Herbal Medications: Exploring Interactions in the Geriatric Population
Geriatric medicine, generally referred to as just "geriatrics" is a branch of internal medi Continue Reading...
Antipsychotic Medication and the Physical Health Problems of the Patient With Mental Illness
More and more attention is now being given to the mental disorders especially in U.S. And due to this increase in attention an increase has also been notice Continue Reading...
This process primarily involves the provision of drugs in solid dose forms like tablets and capsules with high degree of drug stability. The main advantage of oral administration of medication is that doses are normally required to be taken once or Continue Reading...
Introduction
Personalized training is centered on patient evaluation, willingness to be taught, patient’s needs as well as those of the family members. Prior studies have supported this model of personalized training as it is considered success Continue Reading...
BP Disorder
Bipolar disorder, originally called manic depressive disorder, is a severe mood disorder that vacillates between extreme "ups" (mania, hypomania) and "downs" (depression). The effects of having bipolar disorder can be observed across the Continue Reading...
Quality and Safety Gap AnalysisIntroductionThe provision of safe, high-quality patient care is critical in healthcare organizations. However, systemic problems in healthcare systems have contributed to adverse quality and safety outcomes. The purpose Continue Reading...
Introduction
From the year 1999 to 2014, the number of prescription opioids in the USA quadrupled. However, even with such an increase, there was no evidence of a reduction of pain the patients experienced. Instead, the number of deaths that resulted Continue Reading...
Chemistry
Alzheimer's: The Disease & Medication
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a kind of dementia; it is, in fact, the most frequently occurring form of dementia. Alzheimer's Diseases is named for the German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, Aloi Continue Reading...
Executive SummaryThe systemic problem identified in this gap analysis is medication errors in a hospital setting, which contribute to adverse patient outcomes, including hospitalization, disability, and even death. To address this issue, several prac Continue Reading...
Nurses Perception: Effects of the New Sickle Cell Disease Program on the Management and Care Ofadults With Sickle Cell Disease
Description of the relationship between extant literature and the hypothesis
Description of the research design
Descript Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Project Proposal
Graduate Project in Nursing
The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases has been increasing among adolescents in countries around the world, but there remains a dearth of timely and relevant studies concerning sal Continue Reading...
Addiction of Teenagers to Prescription Drugs
Addiction of teenage prescription drugs
The problem of addiction of teenagers to prescription drugs has been on rise in modern days. It is estimated that daily in the United States 2,500 youth abuse pres Continue Reading...
Case Study: JasonIntroductionThis case study is of a 28-year-old male who has been transferred from the psychiatric unit to the acute hospital after three episodes of tonic-clonic seizure with subsequent altered conscious state. The purpose of the st Continue Reading...
My teaching plan for Mr. M would begin with a simple introduction of myself and the purpose of the lesson that I would be teaching him that day. I would use a printed out sheet with pictures rather than many words that help to explain the process for Continue Reading...
Personal Health History
Yes (Please list medications and reasons for usage below)
Medication
Reason for usage
Tiotropium Breathlessness
Emsam Depression
Are you taking any vitamins or dietary supplements?
Yes (If yes then please list supplemen Continue Reading...
Nursing Case Study
The first concern is that Mrs. Baker is taking a new drug that has side effects such as she is experiencing. Although the other high blood pressure medication has similar side effects (Drugs.com, 2012), she has been taking it for Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform
"Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital"
The case of Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital was a case that attempted to end the segregation of African-American and Whites in the U.S. hospitals and medical professions as a Continue Reading...
Woods up with an exercise group close to her house, or a support group
who could help her with adjusting to her new diagnosis and give her
support. The social worker and the nursing staff would also be able to
educate Mrs. Woods' family on the condi Continue Reading...
Adaptive Strategy
The main adaptive strategy that was selected by this hospital was one of analysis: this was the preferred strategy for the hospital. The main rationale for its overall use was that the hospital was founded on a vision that was dis Continue Reading...
The Prevalence and Treatment of Insomnia TodayEveryone experiences trouble sleeping from time to time. Indeed, the events from a busy day can easily intrude on sleep to the point where people fail to get enough rest each night and the ongoing global Continue Reading...
Teaching Plan
Patient Name: Mr. M
Age: 52 years old
Brief: Patient suffers from uncontrolled hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. Patient has no other medical history. Patient also has no allergies, and has not been taking any medications previousl Continue Reading...
sound rationale(s) for each component of the primary survey that the Registered Nurse will undertake.
The geriatric male patient was admitted to the Emergency Department under triage supervision. Primary survey assessment (Considine, 2011) determin Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Technological Advancements on Nursing Practice:
Explore how the latest technological developments, such as electronic health records, telehealth services, and advanced medical equipment Continue Reading...
NURSING Nursing: Psycho-Pharmalogical Approaches to Treat PsychopathologyThe receptor activity is significant in creating the agonist or antagonist responses in neuroscience understanding; the constitutive receptor actions behave simply as competitiv Continue Reading...
Pharmacy Practice in the United States
From its very beginnings, pharmacy was considered the art of making medicines. Like most arts that originated in earlier times, it came eventually to be regarded as a science in the modern age (Wutoh 2). Throug Continue Reading...
Homeostasis Defined
Homeostasis, according to Nirmalan and Nirmalan (2017), is the propensity for living organisms to maintain relative stability in the internal environment. Homeostasis is made possible through the cooperation of several regulatory Continue Reading...
Migraine Pt
Migraine headaches typically cause an intense, throbbing, headache in a specific area of the head (most often one side of the head) and are commonly accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to either light or sound. For many people these he Continue Reading...
Antiemetic Efficacy of Ipa Inhalation
Post-Operative Nausea and Vomiting
Antiemetic Efficacy of IPA Inhalation in High-Risk PONV Patients
Antiemetic Efficacy of IPA Inhalation in High-Risk PONV Patients
Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) i Continue Reading...
Figure 2 lists a number of risk factors that a person may change to reduce his/her risk of developing hypertension and/or to lower his/her blood pressure.
Figure 2: Risk Factors for Hypertension (adapted from Rizzo, Odle & Costello, 2006, Risk Continue Reading...
Economics / Chapter 14
The elderly population is prone to polypharmacy, or being prescribed multiple medications to treat one or several medical conditions. Although the prescribing provider(s) have good intentions, the practice of polypharmacy can Continue Reading...