Unit 4222-616 Administer medication to individuals‚ and monitor the effects (ASM34) Outcome 1 Understand legislation‚ policy and procedures relevant to administration of medication. 1. The current legislation‚ guideline policies and protocols relevant to the administration of medication are. Medicines Act 1968 & amendments. Categorises how medicines are provided and sold. Misuse of Drugs act 1971 (Controlled Drugs) and amendments. Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. 5 elements of risk assessment
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Original requirements for this medication restricted it’s use to only those over the age of 16‚ diagnosed with schizophrenia‚ who displayed a resistance to typical antipsychotic medications or experienced adverse reactions‚ but has since been utilized as a treatment for a variety of disorders in addition to schizophrenia including mood disorders such as Bipolar
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Medication used to treat psychiatric conditions are abused by those who have been diagnosed with co-occurring disorders Why is this so common? Non-medical prescription use and prescription drug disorders are also associated with increased frequency of substance use‚ mood‚ and anxiety disorder. (Blanco et al.‚ 2013) Several medications are available and effective in treating anxiety disorders. These include benzodiazepines; Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)‚ Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
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People with panic disorder can develop an agoraphobia which is intense fear and anxiety such as the fear of open spaces and the fear of places where escape is difficult. Agoraphobia is usually diagnosed following with a health care provider such as cognitive and behavioral therapy often followed with the antidepressants or anxiety reducing medicine. Additionally‚ the effective treatment. The recent study that published by the Maastricht University‚ invested the efficacy of an intensive 1 week behavioral
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Human Medical Experimentation Without knowing‚ humans in the past‚ in the present‚ and possibly in the future have been unaware of the medical tests that have and will be administrated upon them. There are many reasons worthy of attention‚ good and bad. Humans are very curious at why‚ how‚ and what happens if limits are pushed. Most of the time we decide limits for other people‚ such as our children‚ we protect them and teach them our known boundaries and limits. As humans mature‚ the boundaries
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Within the United States‚ there has been a controversy over the ethics of legalizing marijuana and other cannabis products. Recently‚ there has been a surge of anecdotal evidence in social media and the news‚ which demonstrate the efficacy of marijuana in treating certain medical conditions such as epilepsy and anxiety as well as combating nausea and appetite suppression in chemotherapy patients. Furthermore‚ with the epidemic of heroin overdoses‚ the prescription of medical marijuana as an alternative
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drug abuse constitutes the non-medical use and misuse of prescribed medications. Beginning in the 1990’s‚ drugs have been prescribed in record numbers. Often‚ an addiction is born out of prolonged use of painkillers creating unintentional dependence and addiction. Patients begin to require increasing doses of their medication on a more frequent basis which defines the misuse of prescription medication. The non-medical use of medication now presents the biggest problem with prescription drug addiction
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about the health care plan you have?” people generally answered its okay‚ better than none. A generally flat answers right? Well when asked “What do you think your plan can improve on?” they began to list things like pay for more test pay for more medication that’s needed and the most common answer was to allow them to pick their own doctors and not having to wait months for one appointment. As an eighteen year old college student there was no clue about healthcare and its faults and didn’t know it
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How does it make you feel when you observe a group of rowdy teenagers hanging out at the mall‚ or running ramped on the streets near the campus of a local school? Do you dismiss their disruptive behavior as being typical of the average youth‚ or do you feel a sense of frustration that child behavior has become increasingly worse? It is imperative that we‚ the adults‚ parents‚ mentors‚ and community leaders‚ reconstruct the environments in which we raise children. Statistics show that juvenile
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nature and management of this disorder. This disorder is more common in women than it is in men. There is many different forms of treatment for bipolar disorder. Effective treatment for bipolar disorder requires prescribed and supervised psychotropic medications. Patients have to recognize the serious symptoms that come with being bipolar in order to start the rehabilitation process. The primary treatment for bipolar disorder is to end their destructive symptoms. There are many different effects
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