B. Parker Prof. Fern Baudo December 4‚ 2013 Nursing Process Paper ! Managing ineffective health maintenance in a patient with multiple chronic illnesses. Overview. M.E.P. is a 37 year old African-American female who came to the ER on September 20‚ complaining of widespread severe body pain‚ shortness of breath‚ weakness‚ extreme fatigue‚ and a fever. In the ER‚ the physicians admitted her to inpatient care with two diagnoses: sickle cell anemia crisis and mycoplasmic pneumonia
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Justin Throughout the years modern culture has glamourized drug usage through popular culture such as music artist‚ videos‚ and celebrities. The media usually targets teenage to young adult because they are yet at an impressionable age. According to US Health and Human Services Department studies show by the twelfth grade‚ about half of adolescents have abused an illicit drug at least once. The most commonly used drug is marijuana but adolescents can find many abused substances‚ such as prescription
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Heroin problem exploding in NW Ohio Posted: Nov 05‚ 2012 8:02 PM PST Updated: Nov 05‚ 2012 8:45 PM PST (Toledo News Now) - Heroin use and its problems is becoming a growing epidemic in northwest Ohio. The problem is hidden to many in the community. "I think a lot of people are blind to the fact that to what it really is‚" said an addict. Perrysburg Township Sgt. Gross said the epidemic is the number one problem for the department right now. "Well‚ I think law enforcement has already realized
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Opioid abuse and addiction remains major public health concern and is often referred to as the opioid crisis. The National Institute of Health (NIH) reports there are approximately 2.1 million people in the United States suffering with the abuse and addiction to drugs such as heroin‚ morphine‚ and other prescribed opioids‚ and that number is increasing (NIH). While heroin addiction has been at the forefront of this problem‚ prescription opioid abuse is on the rise. Overdoses are also increasing‚
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Problem: Prescription drug abuse is any use of prescription medications in a way that is not intended by the prescribing medical professional. Prescription drug abuse and misuse involves taking shared medication‚ as well as over consumption of medications in order to experience elicited feelings. Inappropriate or excessive drug use may become compulsive and ongoing despite negative consequences (https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/prescription-drugs/what-prescription-drug-abuse)
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depression‚ vomiting‚ insomnia‚ constipation‚ addiction‚ mental illness‚ social isolation‚ coma‚ and even death.4 Non-pharmacological treatment for opioid addiction include rehab‚ cognitive behavioral therapy‚ etc.6 Pharmacological options include methadone‚ buprophenone‚ and naloxone.6 Naloxone is an opioid antagonist which displace opioids at its receptor site.7 It is given at a dose of 0.4-2mg parenterally to reverse opioid overdose.7 Mr. Libertine’s past medical history shows us he abused opioids
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Submitted by: Submitted to: Angelo D. Alfaro Mrs. Salome D. Uy Drug A drug is a substance which may have medicinal‚ intoxicating‚ performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food. What is considered a drug rather than a food varies between cultures‚ and distinctions between drugs and foods and between kinds of drug are enshrined in laws which vary between jurisdictions and
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blood pressure. The amount of time your symptoms last depends on the frequency of use and severity of the addiction. Opiate withdrawal can be very uncomfortable and intense withdrawal symptoms may require hospitalization and medications such as methadone can be used for long-term maintenance therapy. It’s still a powerful opiate‚ but it can be reduced in a controlled manner that is less likely to produce intense withdrawal symptom (Case-LoMedically‚
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Close your eyes and envision a utopian society that has created great advancements in all aspects they’ve set out for themselves. Now‚ imagine that one of those very advancements has corrupted that society‚ sending it plunging into chaos; this is prescription drug abuse. Prescription drug abuse has affected and scrutinized the very lives of millions of Americans‚ escalating it from the crisis it has become‚ into the sovereign epidemic that will reap the well-being and structure of our society that
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Delayed Ejaculation Definition/ Criteria A • 75-100% on one of the flowing: • Marked Delay in ejaculation • Marked Infrequency/absence of ejaculation Criteria B Must have experienced for at least 6 months Criteria C Caused serious clinical Distress Criteria D Not better explained by: Non sexual mental disorder Consequence of severe relational distress Stressors Substance/medication Medical Condition Significant Notes Not to be confused with Erectile Disorder- The issue is release
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