SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Psychotropic Medications

Essays 1 - 30

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

Psychotropic Medications

J. (2009, April 8). When to avoid antidepressants in bipolar patients. Psychiatric Times, 26(4), 5+ Loganathan, N., Lohano, K., Ro...

An Article on Psychotrophic Medications Reviewed

are divided several sections. The tricyclic antidepressants are commonly used for the treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety d...

Self Administered Medications and Medication Aides

2005). However, the employer of these aides will be responsible for ensuring that systems are in place in regards to proper manage...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

Psychopharmacology and GAD

anxiety disorder is prevalent in our society. It is important for all clinicians to have a firm grasp on this disorder as well as ...

Program to Reduce Number of Medications Taken

As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

Medication and Cultures

This research paper describes how health beliefs and cultural views of medication influence health behaviors. Three pages in lengt...

Efficacy of Bar Code Medication Administration

This research paper offers a literature review of studies that pertain to bar code medication administration (BCMA) systems. The p...

A History of Medications

medicinal purposes, but it is thought that its origin is tied to the caves of France dated to as early as 25,000 BCE ("History of ...

An Overdoes of Intravenous Medication and a Change Theory Application

while in the hospital plus the incidence of symptoms and/or disease that would have initially required use of the medication. In ...

Overuse of Psychotropic Drugs in the United States

An overview of why psychotropic drugs are overprescribed and overused in America is presented in a report consisting of ten pages....

Children and the Prescribing of Psychotropic Drugs

in the past (Goode, 2003). Research reveals pediatricians and child psychiatrists seem to be turning to pharmacological interventi...

Schools and Mandatory Psychotropic Drug Use

as analyzing and evaluating the issues involved. This examination will show that the new legal directives in regards to Ritalin us...

Medications for Mental Illness

consent. This presents many problems that begin with whether or not the psychiatrist should tell the patient or guardian every sin...

Issues With Antipsychotic Medications

You provided a good explanation of first-generation and second-generation antipsychotics. To add to the discussion: A number of st...

Depression: To Medicate Or Not

2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...

Treating Schizophrenia

(Long, 2003). In the diagnosis of schizophrenia, individuals are monitored over a period of six months during which they would ha...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

Nursing's Philosophical Issues

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

The School Nurse and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Errors in Medication and Nursing Prevention

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...

3 Research Studies' Literature Review

in all. General weaknesses : The sample population all came from the same hospital, which may limited the applicability of the f...

Treatment Alternatives for CHF Besides Surgery

performed are not always that promising. To further complicate the success of SVR the age-old problem of surgery-related depressi...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

NPs Prescribing/Alberta

In 1999, Albertas Nursing Profession Act Extended Practice Roster Regulation provided province authorities with the legal capacity...