Medical Practices: Polypharmacy Polypharmacy is a phenomena referred to as the intake of multiple medication by a patient, due to multiple medical conditions by a patient. It also is used for the pill burden that a patient has under such circumstances, majorly a problem for elderly people. Sometimes the combination they take may result in a side effect, because of a drug to drug reaction rather than curing. Moreover, due to similar names of the medicines such mishaps could result too. It especially
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Polypharmacy and the Importance of Senior Helpers Polypharmacy and medicine management go hand-in-hand. Polypharmacy is the technical term for simultaneously taking multiple medications in order to treat different conditions and symptoms. Among seniors, polypharmacy can be a very serious issue. Senior helpers significantly reduce the instances of missed medication, overdosing, negative drug interactions and serious or fatal complications from medication side effects. According to "American Nurse
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require multiple medications (polypharmacy) to manage symptoms and prevent future complications. Polypharmacy may describe prescribing of many drugs (appropriately) or too many drugs (inappropriately). Management of complex patients led to difficulty at the prescriber level, mostly via division of care and the participation of multiple prescribers. Multiple practitioners in patient care, each adding to the patient’s medication list is one of the factors to polypharmacy. The risk of heart failure is
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ROLE DESCRIPTIONS BPO Service Delivery- Techno function & SDM COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS © Cognizant Technology Solutions 1 Process Executive Track: BPO Service Delivery Management Career Stage: Learning/Contributing Location: Offshore Role Title: Process Executive Typical Grade: PE (L1) Reporting to: TL / TM / AOM Position Summary Individuals in this role are responsible for meeting TAT and maintaining accuracy in day-to-day transaction processing in client/Internal applications
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Polypharmacy in the Elderly Courtney Lopez Western Governors University Polypharmacy in the Elderly I. Introduction a. Audience hook: John, an 85 year old man is admitted into the emergency room with a heart rate of 40, and complaints of dizziness and weakness for several days. Nancy RN is the nurse taking care of John when he is brought in. Upon reviewing Johns’ medications, Nancy is aware that there are two prescriptions for the same beta blocker each with a different dose and frequency
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Polypharmacy is an increasing concern in health care, particularly among older adults with multiple co-morbidities. It is defined as the use of multiple drugs (five or greater ) or more than are medically necessary (citation). The elderly represents 14% of the United States (US) population and it is expected to increase to 23% in 2043 with the aging of the baby boomers (citation). They consume about 33% of prescribed medications in the US. It is estimated that 24-39% of the elderly take on average
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Case Study Ms. J. O. is an 82 year old female with a variety of comorbidities including Alzheimer’s type dementia. She is a resident of a dementia unit of a local assisted living facility. She was brought in to the hospital for a fall from which she stated she had hit her head but never lost consciousness. On arrival to hospital she was noticed to be very confused with complaint of back pain, chest pain but alert. After a short period of time her GCS abruptly dropped to 3 requiring intubation
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In this essay, I will do a journal article comparison. The articles selected have something in common – treatment of drug. The first article is “Do drug treatment variables predict cognitive performance in multidrug-treated opioid-dependent patients? A regression analysis study” by Pekka Rapeli, Carola Fabritius, Hely Kalska and Hannu Alho. This article was taken from an open access article under Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012, at http://www.substanceabusepolicy.com/content/7/1/45
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Early Nursing Intervention in Parkinson's Disease CE Parkinson's disease (PD), is a multisystem neurodegenerative process that results in both motor and nonmotor symptoms. Quality of life (QOL) is significantly impaired for both the patient and the family. Therapy should focus on early detection and alleviation of motor/nonmotor symptoms and improvement of QOL for the patient and his or her entire support system. Patients, families, and healthcare providers often do not recognize the nonmotor symptoms
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intrinsic (e.g., older age, balance disorders, history of falls, decreased vision, altered cognitive status, or history of arthritis, heart attack, stroke, postural blood pressure changes, syncope, dizziness, or chronic lung disease), extrinsic (e.g., polypharmacy and use of certain medications known to increase fall risk [e.g., benzodiazepines, sedatives, neuroleptics, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, class I antiarrhythmics, and diuretics]), and environmental (e.g., inadequate lighting, slippery floors
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