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cultural assessment
- languages spoken
- health beliefs and practices
- past uses of medicine
- herbal treatments, folk remedies, home remedies
- otc drugs and treatment
- usual responses to illness
- responsiveness to medical treatment
- religious practices and beliefs
- support from the patient's cultural community
- dietary habits
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
- determines schedule of controlled substances
- establishes production quota
- prevents unlawful diversions of controlled substances
health practitioners hospitals and pharmacies must be registered with DEA in order to what? (2)
- order controlled substances
- purchase controlled substances.
New drug development
- investigational new drug (IND) application
- informed concent
- US FDA drug approval process
US FDA drug approval process:
(4 things involved with it)
- preclinical testing
- clinical studies
- investigational drug studies
- expedited drug approval
legal nursing considerations
- state and federal legislation
- nurse practice acts
- guidelines from professional nursing groups
- institutional policies and procedures, state and federal hospital licensing
- case law or common law
- HIPAA
- all scheduled meds must be counted every 8 hours
- institutional policy determines which nurses transfer responsibility from shift to shift
- nurses must remain alert to the potential violation of controlled substances act - may result in loss of job and/or fine and/or imprisonment
- nurses who fail to report suspicions about others may lose their jobs.
the ONLY three times a nurse can legally have controlled substance is their possession
- the nurse is giving them to a patient
- the nurse is responsible for the control of the supply of a unit or department
- the nurse is the patient prescribed
associations having codes of ethics for nurses: (2)
- american nurses association (ANA)
- international council of nurses (ICN)

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