medicine list and answers
Answer the following questions and follow the rubric for this assignment. Answers should be paraphrased and cited using APA formate: the medicine are listed below from 1-15.
- What is the action if this medication?
- What is the indication of this medication?
- What are the ALL the common side and Adverse Effects effects of this medication?
- Create an ethical dilemma about this medication. Use the considerations after the medication as a guide when developing the ethical dilemma.
- Create a ethical question that can be discussed in class; the question should be drawn from the ethical dilemma you created
- Alfuzosin (Uroxatral): Consider risks of inducing urgency or bradycardia in a clients with dementia issues
- Benztropine (Cogentin): Consider harms that can occur with comorbidities like glaucoma or BPH
- Albuterol: Consider harms that can occur is asthmatic children are in charge of their own inhalers
- Atenolol: Consider harms that could occur if heart rate was low or patient was asthmatic
- Lorazepam (Ativan): Consider vulnerability issues related to sedation and induction of memory loss
- Oxycodone (Oxycontin): Consider addiction, drug seeking and patient vulnerability in impaired nurses
- Amitriptyline (Elavil): Consider vulnerability issues with risk of suicidal overdose given anticholinergic effects
- Haloperidol (Haldol): Consider risks of chemical sedation, especially long term risks
- Lithium: Consider risks of mismanagement by clients whose behaviors are unpredictable
- Phenytoin (Dilantin): Consider risks of Class D in young women vs risks of going without anti-epileptics
- Kava – kava (Ava pepper): Consider risks of availability of compounding poorly controlled over the counter sedatives
- Sumatriptan (Imitrex): Consider risks of cerebral ischemia when giving vasoconstrictors for migraine control
- Cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril) : Consider risks of impaired function when nurses take muscle relaxants
- Corticosteroids/Prednisone: Consider long term effects, when other immune suppressors are too expensive to access.
- Naloxone (Narcan): Consider the potential use of this medication if provided to the public freely.