It does not cover the use and administration of intra-venous medication. Scope The scope is here to give you guidance on possible areas to be covered in this Unit. The terms in this section give you a list of options linked with items in the performance criteria. You need to provide evidence for any option related to your work area. Adverse reactions may include: swelling; allergic skin reaction; tachycardia/bradycardia; anaphylaxis; hypertention/hypotension; pain on injection.
• Diarrhea, if the intestine is partly blocked. Call your doctor right away if your belly pain is severe and constant. This may mean that your intestine's blood supply has been cut off or that you have a hole in your intestine. This is an emergency. How is a bowel obstruction diagnosed?
Wound Dressings: Wet to Dry According to the article, “The issues surrounding the continued use of saline soaked gauze dressings”, using wet to dry dressings for wounds healing by second intention may actually have a detrimental effect on wound healing and patient comfort. The article stated that saline soaked dressings may prolong inflammation by adhering to granulation tissue during debridement causing the wound to return to an earlier inflammatory stage. The author also states that this will also cause increased pain for the patient. In addition, debridement in this manner can also cause dehydration of the wound and cause further pain by exposing nerve endings to air and cold saline several times a day during dressing change. Also mentioned, is the increased risk of localized hypothermia and risk for infection as wet gauze to the wound can cause vasoconstriction and in theory, also decrease leukocyte mobility and efficiency of phagocytes.
Kayleigh Jones 04/07/2015 Unit 36 ASM 34 Administer Medication to Individuals and Monitor the Effects 1. Understand legislation, policy and procedures relevant to administration of medication. 1.1 Identify current legislation, guidelines policies and protocols relevant to the administration of medication. * The medicine Act, * COSHH Regulations, * Health and Safety at work Act, * The misuse of drugs Act, * The misuse of drug (safe custody) Regulations, * Health and Social care Act, * Essential standards Date Protection Act, * Hazardous Waste Regulations. The medication policy handbook that covers assessment of individual’s needs, administrating storage, recording and disposal of medication.
Common symptoms include chest pain, shaking chills, fever, dry cough, muscle aches, nausea and vomiting, rapid breathing and rapid heart rate. Symptoms that may indicate a medical emergency are bluish skin tone, labored breathing, high fever and confusion. Management and treatment of pneumonia involves a course of antibiotics. This patient is allergic to clindamycin and vancomycin, so he is being treated with tazobactam/piperacillin. The patient is also receiving multiple courses of respiratory treatment, including vest therapy, cough assistance and nebulizer treatments.
Select one clinical skill in which you are developing competence in and reflect upon how you have achieved the necessary level of competence for this stage of the programme. The clinical skill that I have chosen to discuss and to reflect upon in this essay is the administration of Intramuscular (IM) Injections, and how competent I am at this stage of my nurse training program. This clinical skill, which is not only practiced in a general nursing area, is a technique which is used widely within the Mental Health branch of nursing. I have chosen this skill as within in my two clinical placements this was a method used not only for the administration of Depot Injections for antipsychotic drugs, which I was involved in giving, but also as a way of administrating various other types of drugs. As a student nurse the giving of an IM injection for the first time can be quite daunting, especially if they have never had the experience of a healthcare background.
Other causes are severe constipation from a hard mass of stool, and narrowing of the intestine caused by diverticulitis or inflammatory bowel disease. The Symptoms Bowel Obstruction is: Cramping and belly pain that comes and goes. The pain can occur around or below the belly button, Vomiting, Bloating, Constipation and a lack of gas, if the intestine is completely blocked, and Diarrhea, if the intestine is partly blocked. Ostomy Care Ostomy is a surgically created opening, the opening is called a stoma. The person wears a pouch over the stoma to collect feces and flatus.
Its Primary purpose is to ensure quality patient care and managing the cost of that care. Its secondary purpose as defined by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) deals with individual users for education, regulations, policies and public health from data entered, verified, corrected or analyzed directly or indirectly. Homeland Security has recently been added to the list of users, including patient care providers, managers and staff, coders and patients themselves. Patients can make changes as necessary. Other users might include lawyers, employers, law enforcement and researchers.
UTI affects the urinary system consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. The urinary tract is the body's filtering system for removal of liquid wastes and bacterial infection can affect its sole function. Symptoms of UTI Not everyone with UTI knows that they have the infection, but many experienced one of these symptoms: The frequent urge to urinate with painful burning sensation, feeling tired and shaky, back pain and in worse cases nausea and vomiting. The urine of a person with the infection maybe cloudy, and even though they feel frequent urge to urinate, they passed small volume of urine each time. When the infection reached the kidneys, the person may experience fever and chills.
Unit 4222-16 Administer Medication to Individuals and Monitor the Effects Outcome 1 Understand legislation, policy and procedures relevant to Administration of medication Identify current legislation, guidelines policies and protocols relevant to the administration of medication. The current applicable legislation for the administration of medication includes The Health and Social Care Act Regulation 13 as summarised by Outcome 9 of the Care Quality Commission Essential Standards. The Medicines Act 1968 The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Misuse of Drgus (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973 The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulation 1999 Hazardous Waste Regulation 2005 These are all used to help my company write their Medication Policy and procedure. The company required all Care and Support workers to have read the policy and have training on the administration of medication. All Care and Support workers should have refresher training annually.