Nursing

Edapt Relearning Assignment Guidelines

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Week/Edapt Unit: Week 1 Safety Lifespan and Professional Identity

Apply previous knowledge gained in theory, clinical, or lab and how it links to the selected concept in the shared situation.

Lifespan considerations and OTC are closely related to the nursing process of ADPIE. From my understanding, during the assessment phase, the most vital step, the nurse must assess the patient when self-medicating. Also, past and present history on responses of either failure or success, allergies, and carefully monitor the patient with assumptions that OCT is safe without any negative consequences that can occur. Patient teaching is the most crucial phase in assessing a patient’s knowledge of OTC use when self-medicating cues a patient’s lack of knowledge and attitude towards overdosage, overuse, and harmful effects. In addition, the patient will not know about the adverse reactions or the high risk of drug interactions by self-medicated and self-monitored OTC use without laboratory monitoring.

Utilizing your scholarly resources, outline the role of the nurse in the shared scenario.

During pregnancy, mothers must understand the differences between health risks when self-medicating using over-the-counter (OTC) medications that can cause fetal and mother harm (Atmadani et al., 2020; Lilley et al., 2019). Like the differences in consuming oral vitamins and reporting to the health care provider that using OTC while pregnant is a health risk of fetal harm (2019, 2020). Also, using OTC for self-medicating is a much greater risk of injury than any medication harmful to the fetus or mother (2019, 2020).

Scholarly Reading/Resources:

Atmadani, R. N., Nkoka, O., Yunita, S. L., & Chen, Y.-H. (2020). Self-medication and knowledge among pregnant women attending primary healthcare services in Malang, Indonesia: a cross-sectional study.  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth,  20(1), 42–42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-2736-2

Lilley, L. L., Collins, S. R., & Snyder, S. (2019). Pharmacology the nursing process. Mosby.

From your personal or health care experience, share a nursing or patient situation that illustrates the selected concept.

At a young age, I noticed my body was changing and lost about ten pounds to gaining over twenty-five pounds rapidly, and I decided to start taking OTC vitamins along with herbs to counteract the changes in my body. Without realizing the changes in my body were due to pregnancy, I continued consuming OTC vitamins and herbs along with the prenatal vitamins when lactating. When my firstborn son was about three months old, I noticed he did not respond to loud noises about the same time we was hospitalized for vitamin A toxicity. The nurse caring for me explained in details how I must not consume OTC vitamins or herbs. Personally thought it was safe to take OTC vitamins and herbs with the prenatal vitamins while pregnant and lactating which caused my firstborn son’s bilateral deafness. To include various emergency visits related to ear, nose, and throat infections.

Related Concepts:

Over-the-counter drugs and herbal and dietary supplements.

Selected Concept:

Lifespan considerations.