Substance, MDD, Culture Flashcards
What is Substance-Use Disorders?
Addiction
The need is so strong
What is Substance-Induced Disorders?
Intoxication
Withdrawal
Patient using substances
Tolerance
Need for increasing amount of the medication or substance is required to produce the desired effect
More, more, more and more!!
What will occur when you abruptly stop drinking
a) How long till symptoms occur?
b) Symptoms
Alcohol withdrawal
a) 4 to 12 hours
b) Abnormal cramping, vomiting, shakes, insomnia, and anxiety.
Interventions Alcohol withdrawal
a) Assess what is the prior to providing care?
b) What is the primary concern for AW?
c) Encourage attendance to what group?
d) For environment?
a) Nurse must self-assess their own feelings
b) Safety
c) 12 steps Self-help groups (AA)
d) Maintain a safe environment
low stimulation environment
Emotional support
Medications used in alcohol withdrawal.
Benzodiazepines!!
chlordiazepoxide
carbamazepine
Clonidine
What is Delirium tremens/ DTs?
The most severe form of ethanol withdrawal
Medical emergency!!!
The signs and symptoms of DTs
alcohol withdrawal delirium
Occurs typically ?
On the 2-3 days of withdrawal
Severe shaking
Confusion
Hallucinations
Heard voices
What is CAGE assessment instrument?
Substance Abuse Screening Tool
Cut down on your drinking?
Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?
Guilty about your drinking?
Eye-opener
If the patient answers “yes” they get 1 point
if they answer “no” they get 0 points
CAGE assessment
a) Score of 0-1?
b) Score of 2-3?
a) low risk of drinking problem
b) high suspicion of alcoholism
What is the Wernicke’s encephalopathy?
Why it occur?
Lack of thiamine,brain damage
Caused by lack of vitamin B1
Treatment: thiamine replacement
Occurs d/t heavy alcohol consumption
Wernicke’s encephalopathy
Signs and symptoms
Ataxia (loss of muscle coordination)
Diplopia(double vision)
Somnolence(drowsiness, desire to fall sleep)
Stupor(-unconsciousness)
What is Korsakoff syndrome?
Memory disorder that results from lack of vitamin B1
Seen in clients recovering from Wernicke’s encephalopathy
Korsakoff syndrome
Signs and symptoms
Inability to form new memories
Loss of memory
Making up stories (confabulation)
What is withdrawal?
Physiological and mental readjustment of the discontinuation
Occurs abrupt, 4-12 hours
What is Alcoholic hallucinosis?
Auditory hallucinations occur either during or after heavy alcohol consumption
What is Blackout?
brief periods of amnesia(memory loss) that occur during or immediately following a period of drinking
Peripheral Neuropathy?
Nerve damage result in pain
D/t lack of vitamins B (thiamine)
Treated by: abstinence from alcohol
*Paralysis can occur if pt doesn’t stop drinking
Alcoholic myopathy?
Acute: sudden onset of muscle pain, swelling, weakness, elevated muscle enzymes
Chronic: gradual wasting and weakness in skeletal muscles – no pain or elevated muscle enzymes
D/t lack of vitamins B (thiamine)
Priority nursing diagnosis in alcohol withdrawal? 5
Risk for injury
Denial
Ineffective Coping
Dysfunctional family process
Imbalanced nutrition less than body requirement
Alcohol withdrawal
Denial
Commonly used
Conscious or unconscious attempt
“ I can quit whenever I want to”
- Which of the following has been implicated
in the predisposition to substance abuse?
A. Hereditary factor
B. Fixation in the adolescent stage of
psychosexual development
C. Punitive ego
D. Narcissistic and dependent personality traits
A
Especially evident with alcoholism
Children of alcoholics are 4 times more likely than other children to become alcoholic
hereditary 遺伝的な
A client is brought to the emergency department.
The client is aggressive, has slurred speech, and impaired motor coordination. Blood alcohol level is 347 mg/dL. Among the physician’s orders is thiamine. Which is the rationale for this intervention?
A. To prevent nutritional deficits
B. To prevent pancreatitis
C. To prevent alcoholic hepatitis
D. To prevent Wernicke’s encephalopathy
D
Wernicke’s encephalopathy is the most
serious form of thiamine deficiency in clients
diagnosed with alcoholism.
If thiamine replacement therapy is not
undertaken quickly, death will ensue.
A client diagnosed with chronic alcoholism
and he wants to stop drinking. which medication would the nurse provide information?
A. Carbamazepine (Tegretol)
B. Clonidine (Catapres)
C. Disulfiram (Antabuse)
D. Folic acid (Folvite)
C
Disulfiram is used as a deterrent 抑止する to drinking.
Ingestion of alcohol while disulfiram is in the body results in a syndrome of symptoms that can cause varying degrees of discomfort.
It is important that the patient understands that all alcohol, oral or topical, and medications that contain alcohol, are strictly prohibited when taking this drug.