Polypharmacy refers to the simultaneous treatment of an illness‚ with two or more medications‚ that share a similar mechanism of action and therapeutic effect. A common reason doctors use this technique is to gain a greater or a more rapid therapeutic effect than achieved with monotherapy. Also‚ the multiple medications prescribed help to treat the wide range of symptoms associated with the mental illness. Polypharmacy in treatment- resistant patients is considered “common practice” in some mental
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Polypharmacy in the Elderly Wendy Randall Nursing Care of Older Adults and Their Families. Nur. 400 Deena S. Gill Dec. 6‚ 2012 Polypharmacy in the Elderly The average lifespan for an American today is about eighty years‚ roughly thirty years longer than it was a century ago. Our quality of life as we age is vastly better as well‚ heavily influenced by new vaccines and better drugs. [ (D ’ Oratzio‚ 2012) ] The likelihood of having at least one chronic disease increases substantially in
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multiple pathologies‚ elderly patients are prescribed with multiple medications that they concomitant use. Increasing number of elderly patients have multiple morbidities. Because of this reason‚ they are treated with a vast array of medications. Polypharmacy‚ a common and important problem related to drug use‚ occurs in the elderly in all populations. Due to their multiple medication intake‚ adverse drug reactions and interactions can pose a health risk to the geriatric patients. The occurrence of
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Nightingale Hospital’s mission is to strive for healthcare excellence. As such‚ it is imperative for us to work to address any deficiencies found on our state audits. As always‚ our goal is for 100% compliance in all survey areas as even a 1% deficiency brings the potential for patient injury or death and for increased hospital operating costs. On our last Joint Commission survey‚ four priority focus areas were identified: information management‚ medication management‚ communication and infection
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Poly-Pharmacy Polypharmacy refers to the effects of taking multiple medications at the same time to manage coexisting health problems‚ such as diabetes and hypertension. Polypharmacy has become a huge problem with patients being prescribed too many medications by multiple providers. If no one provider knows the entire medication picture of the patient’s there is a risk of drugs badly interacting with one another. Polypharmacy is a problem especially among older adults and has become a common issue
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What Is Ethics? Ethics is the part of philosophy that deals with good and evil. Ethics tries to answer questions like: • What actions are good? What actions are evil? • How can we tell the difference? • Are good and evil the same for everyone? • How should we make hard decisions that might help or hurt other people? The Four main studies of ethics are; • Meta-ethics‚ about the theoretical meaning of moral propositions and ethical opinions; • Normative ethics‚ an abstract set of principles
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SCHOOL OF LAW Year 2013-14 Term 1 LAW001 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Instructor: David N. Smith Practice Professor‚ School of Law Tel: Email: Office: 6828 0788 davidsmith@smu.edu.sg School of Law‚ Room 4044‚ Level 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION Issues of ethics and social responsibility arise in all professions and all aspects of life. The failure to anticipate‚ recognize and deal effectively with these issues can have serious implications for individuals‚ companies‚ governments
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CARE ETHICS (The Ethics of Care) A Presentation of the Northeast Ethics Education Partnership and Ethical Awareness for International Collaboration‚ Brown University‚ 2012 Introduction • Care ethics [The ethics of care] originated among feminists who maintained‚ on the basis of Carol Gilligan’s work‚ A Different Voice ‚ that women and girls approach moral issues with a strong concern for empathy and caring in interpersonal relationships. Care and Virtues • Care ethics focuses on virtues
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ROLE OF ETHICS IN BUSINESS: Ethics Defined: Ethics are principles based on doing the right thing. They are the moral values by which an individual or business operates. In theory‚ a business or individual can act ethically and still attain ultimate success. A history of doing the right thing can be used as a selling point to heighten a person’s or organization’s reputation in the community. Not only are ethics morally valued‚ they are backed by legal repercussions for failure to act within certain
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Business ethics -Ethics derived from the Greek word ethos – which refers to the conventional customs and norms of a given culture – the term ethics can be understood in two ways: • as a traditional field of philosophical inquiry dating back to ancient Greece‚ which is concerned with values as they relate to human conduct; and • as the systematic study of norms and values that guide how people should live their lives. -Ethics is to do with what is good and bad or right and wrong. The
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