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The Use of Medical Marijuana in Nursing Practice
The nursing profession is traditionally regarded as focusing primarily on well established and routine functions. However, over time, the role of nurses in healthcare has taken a distinct turn into a proactive activity that requires critical thinking and expanded knowledge. Similarly, developments in modern healthcare concepts have introduced new practices to nursing such as best practice and evidence based practice that are designed to improve the quality of care offered to for patients. These new techniques demand greater accountability and, therefore, a significant challenge to the conventional nursing practice. In a nutshell, evidence-based
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Like any other strategy, evidence-based practice has introduced challenges in the nursing profession that evoke different interpretations. For example, there is a problem in defining the best method to evaluate the ideal research to suit particular situations and patients. Similarly, evidence-based research seems to encourage novel clinical and medical strategies. The most notable of these is the use of alternative and complementary medicine. The use of alternative medicine has in the past few decades become increasingly controversial as it lacks the foundation of research required to demonstrate its efficacy (Ruben, 122). It should be noted that drug regulatory bodies require extensive research into a particular drug before they can be approved. On the other hand, the growing body of knowledge developing as a result of strategies such as the evidence-based practice has continued to identify new solutions to patient’s needs. The use of these new solutions, however, raises ethical conflicts as it puts the nurse …show more content…
The drug’s interaction with the brain impairs cognitive abilities and increases the risk of mental disabilities particularly among new users (Gruber, 237). Gruber also shows how marijuana alters social behavior as users tend to devote less time to social interaction and more in pursuing the drug. Murray adds that marijuana is also a highly addictive drug that induces dependence in close to 20% of all users (20). On a more important note, the use of marijuana is identified as increasing the possibility of users engaging in more addictive substances. It is noted that this is the Federal government’s central reason for maintaining its position to classify the drug as a schedule one
There is a major debate in today’s world about the legalization of cannabis, especially, in the United States. States such as California and Illinois have already moved forward in their open-minded thinking about the drug and are allowing people to use marijuana as an alternative to other prescribed drugs in treating the effects of certain ailments. The idea of legalizing marijuana is a touchy subject for many people; on the one hand its properties are beneficial to many people who suffer from many different illnesses, on the other hand, it is an illegal substance that has many addictive qualities. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency’s website, “Marijuana is a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning that it has a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in the treatment, in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision” (DEA, 2011).... ...
Catheter Acquired Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) has become to be classified as one among the leading infections which most individuals end up being susceptible to acquire while at the hospital. Healthcare-associated or acquired infections (HAIs) are a significant cause of illness, death, and more often than not, have resulted to cost the tax payers potentially high medical expenses in most health care settings. ("Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality," para. 1) Due to this, 1 out of every 20 patients will end up with CAUTI within the US hospitals and this has caused Agency for healthcare research and quality (AHRQ) to embark on nationwide plans to help in the eradication and control of CAUTI incidences. ("Agency
Marijuana is a drug that is harmful to a person¡¯s health. It has been found to have adverse impacts on one¡¯s mental processes such as memory, attention, judgement, and problem- solving (Butcher, Mineka, Hooley, 2004, p.415). Also, marijuana can interfere with a person¡¯s ability to think rationally and logically. Thus, the lapse in judgement caused by the drug use can lead to risky sexual behaviours and this may result in increasing sexually transmitted disease such as AIDS. Moreover, the long-term use of marijuana may cause chronic breathing problems and cancer ...
I could use the John Hopkins nursing evidence based practice model for implementation of a study where I work. I am a bedside nurse in a community hospital. If I were doing a study this model would fit well because the model was developed to involve hospital nurses as well as other staff. The model uses a multidisciplinary approach. There are three steps to using the John Hopkins model.
Mekdlawit Demissie IGED 130-06 Informative Speech Outline Topic: Marijuana Speech Goal: To inform the audience about the long and short term effects of marijuana usage. Central Idea: Marijuana is the most commonly used drug amongst young people in the United States. Introduction: I. Attention getter:
Over the last 10 years evidence-based practice (EBP) has grown substantially and is changing the nursing care delivered to patients along with the nursing work environment. Nurses are more involved in the decision making process, and are making clinical decisions with better patient outcomes (Good, Fink, Krugman, Oman, & Traditi, 2011). With technology growing at such a fast pace, new and more effective medicines, medical devices, and procedures are developed daily. Digestible sensors that monitor your bodily systems and 3D printing of embryonic stem cells, blood vessels, and sheets of cardiac tissue that actually beat like a real heart, are significantly impacting the future of healthcare (Honigman,
Marijuana while illegal on a federal level has been legalized in 18 states and the District of Columbia for medical use and also for personal use for anyone over 21 in Washington and Colorado. 48% of Americans admit to using marijuana according to a 2013 survey conducted by Scientific America. With the change in public opinion concerning marijuana the need to understand the effect and consequences associated with its use are vitally important. What are the effects on the brain and the rest of the body? Does it matter when you start using marijuana? Also what is the effect marijuana use has on a person’s life, to include school, work, family and friends.
Research based practice is arguably the hallmark of professional nursing and is essential for high quality clinical and cost effective nursing care (ICN 2009)
Evidence-based practice integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care (qsen.org). Like most medical professions, nursing is a constantly changing field. With new studies being done and as we learn more about different diseases it is crucial for the nurse to continue to learn even after becoming an RN. Using evidence-based practice methods are a great way for nurses and other medical professionals learn new information and to stay up to date on new ways to practice that can be used to better assess
From ancestral times to present, healer’s dedicated their life’s passion to exercise experienced medical techniques to improve a patient’s quality of life. As many techniques are passed from generation-to-generation they continue to evolve as research philosophers discover improved ways to enhance patient care through evidence-based practices (EBP). EBP has emerged through the years as an effective strategy to improve the quality clinical experience, implement best-researched practices, and tailor to patient values and preferences. The impact of EBP has echoed across the united states, as well as many countries, in transforming health care facilities by redesigning effective, safe, and efficient platforms. However, there has been much hardship for nurses to incorporate EBP into their daily nursing process. This paper will discus the common barriers nurses encounter when implementing evidence-based practices into the nursing process, and the effective workshop programs management has placed to overcome those barriers.
The Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model provides nurses with a system to formulate a practice question, appraise both research and non-research evidence, and to develop recommendations for practice (Dearholt & Dang, 2012). This model guides nurses through the evidence-based research process with ease and minimal difficulty using a problem solving approach.
What are the best ways of achieving this in the reality of the modern NHS? To conclude, Evidence Based Practice is a process of building up accurate information from medical research which has been correlated and assessed. From this, the nurse is capable of advising the best plan of care. For nursing standards to improve, it is vitally important that the nurse is given the time to research and the trust to start off the process of change for better care. References Cullum, N., Ciliska, D. and R. Haynes, Marks (2008).
One feature of evidence based practice is a problem-solving approach that draws on nurses’ experience to identify a problem or potential diagnosis. After a problem is identified, evidence based practice can be used to come up with interventions and possible risks involved with each intervention. Next, nurses will use the knowledge and theory to do clinical research and decide on the appropriate intervention. Lastly, evidence base practice allows the patients to have a voice in their own care. Each patient brings their own preferences and ideas on how their care should be handled and the expectations that they have (Fain, 2017, pg.
Yes, indeed this class has really change my thinking about nursing research and evidence based practice as a result of this course, I learn a lot about nursing research which are how to search for research article which are from reliable sources, quantitative and qualitative research design, what a critical thinker would look for in the evidence before deciding to change, differences and the important of inferential and descriptive statistics, the important and implication of using convenient sample, reliability and validity of a research. I will make sure I apply evidence based practice in every aspect of my nursing practice, Implementation of Evidence Based Practice places additional demands on nurses to apply credible evidence to individual
In health care, evidence-based research is crucial. Nurses revolve their practice on evidence so that they may provide the best health care. Without research, there would be no evidence to prove health care related findings (Shmidt & Brown, 2012). With appropriate