3) Describe the common adverse reactions to medication, how each can be recognised and the appropriate action(s) required. Common adverse reactions are diarrhoea, skin rashes, sickness, facial swelling, blistering of the skin and wheezing. These can all be recognised by reading the side effects on medication packets or contacting a pharmacist. The appropriate action to take if a person supported is having an adverse reaction is to contact doctors/hospital so they can be treated appropriately. 4) Explain the different routes of medicine administration.
This in turn exposes not only patients, but also nurses to a significant amount of noise and alarms, ultimately leading to the clinical problem called alarm fatigue. As defined by the Joint Commission, alarm fatigue is known as the desensitization of medical staff as a result of sensory overload. This overload ultimately results in a delay of an alarm being answered, and sometimes someone completely missing the alarm altogether (The Joint Commission, 2015). Alarm fatigue has been recognized as a contributing
M1: Assess possible difficulties involved in the diagnosis of the disorders from their signs and symptoms. There can be difficulties when diagnosing disorders because many signs and symptoms are similar to other disorder which is why doctors have to be thorough when making diagnosis so that they don’t miss any signs and get it mixed up with another disorders. When diagnosing coronary heart disease the signs and symptoms can be similar to other disorders in the cardiovascular system such as an aortic aneurysm. The signs and symptoms of aortic aneurysm include pain in your back, jaw, chest and neck aortic aneurysm which is the similar pain to diagnosing coronary heart disease. Other symptoms that are similar to coronary heart disease are dizziness,
Handwritten reports or notes, manual order entry, non-standard abbreviation and poor legibility lead to errors and injuries to patients, according to a 1999 Institute of Medicine Report. CPOE significantly improved timely discontinuation of antibacterial from 38.8 percent of surgeries to 55.7 percent in the intervention hospital. CPOE/e-prescribing systems can provide automatic dosing alerts (for example, letting the user know that the dose is too high and thus dangerous and interaction checking. In this way, specialist in pharmacy informatics work with the medical and nursing staff at hospitals to improve the safety and effectiveness of medication use by utilizing CPOE systems. In using CPOE for medications, orders are incorporated with patient information, such as other prescriptions and lab results, which can be automatically checked for potential errors or problems.
They can stop people from suffering from hallucinations and dilusions , they can help with depression and they also help people who suffer from mood swings. 4. Explain the importance of recording and reporting side effects/ adverse reactions to medication. It is very important to record any side affects to monitor the situation. If the side affects are reoccurring then staff must seek medical attention and request a medication review so that the service user stops experiencing them.
A paediatric nurse in a healthcare setting provides reinforcement at each step of the process. For example, when a child is having to get a blood test done and is afraid and refusing to do so calmly, the nurse will look for a positive behaviour and then gives the patient immediate reinforcement by saying, “you are such a big boy, well done!” or “you did an excellent job with that!”. Another time the behaviourist theory is used in health care includes when patients are recovering from alcoholism, they are given a drug that when mixed with alcohol produces undesirable physiological effects such as nausea and vomiting. This helps the patient associate the alcohol with the horrible effects, making the need and wants to drink alcohol less and less desirable. Cognitive learning theorists believe that learning is an internal process in which information is integrated into one’s cognitive structure.
A patient presenting with a head injury can pose a lot of complications and the nurse needs to assess and monitor the patient thoroughly. Management of traumatic brain injury focuses on stabilisation of the patient and prevention of secondary neurologic damage due to high intracranial pressure. Assessment of the brain injury hinges on evaluation of the Glasgow coma scale, GCS and examination of the pupils (Chesnut, 2006, p.1). Nurses make important clinical decisions everyday and these decisions have an effect on the patient’s healthcare and the actions of other health care professionals, as the emergency department treats patients with various complex needs nurses need to rely on sound decision making skills and assess monitor and
* Diagnosis * Treatment * Welfare assistance - provide financial assistance, advocacy * Nursing – Individualized assistance and care plan * Physiotherapists (http://mswa.org.au/How-We-Help/Services-we-provide) Risks * Too many people and too much noise can be a stressful encounter for people with MS, specifically those with cognitive dysfunction. * Infections like flu can course a person with multiple sclerosis to have added complications, which can lead to pneumonia due to decreased lung function. * Lack of sleep, as a result of the constant fatigue that a person with MS
The Medication Policy and Handbook within my workplace that covers assessment of individuals’ needs, administering, storage, recording and disposal of medicines. 2.1 Describe common types of medication including their effects and potential side effects. Common types of medication | Effects | Potential side effects | Analgesics e.g. Paracetamol, Aspirin, Co-Codamol. | Analgesics are used to relieve pain such as headaches.
Introduction: Pain is one of the most common and distressing symptoms described by patients with life-limiting illnesses (Ferrell and Coyle, 2008). However, it is not purely a physical experience but involves various other components of human functioning, including personality, mood, behaviour, and social relations (Bruera and Portenoy, 2003). In an attempt to describe the all-encompassing nature of pain within a “wholeperson” framework, Dame Cicely Saunders coined the concept of “total pain” (Saunders, 1978). She suggested that pain has physical, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual components that make up the “total pain” experience. Yet the contribution of each component will be specific to each individual and his or her situation.