Anonymous staff thinks that resident Nola Gucliano did not die of natural cause; RP believes that her death was due to the improper care and medications being administered to her without orders. Around 8/15/17, RP noticed that staff signatures are being forged on the controlled substance page and the entire page was "redone". RP stated that medication bottles are being stripped of their labels and the medication is being given to other residents who do not have the medication prescribed to them. RP that a resident was given Lorazepam without orders and another resident was out of Warfain and was given another resident's Warfain. RP stated that the medication bottles will be labeled "multivitamin" but will have Lorazepam in the bottle instead.…
Final Writing Assignment 1. No, I’m not a consumer of Blue Bell, I have always preferred Ben & Jerry’s or Baskin Robins instead because I grew up in Dubai and I was most familiar with those ice cream companies. It didn’t necessarily affect my consumption, but I actively tried to prevent my friends and roommates from buying it after the Listeria recall news spread.…
Dennis Quaid’s twins were accidentally given an overdose of Heaped. The nurses gave the two twins the dose of 10,000 units instead of the 10 units. The twins blood become so thin it had the consistency of water. The morning after the kids were giving the dose Dennis and his wife noticed something was wrong when one of the baby’s belly buttons would not stop bleeding. The nurses knew about the accident but didn’t even bother to let the Quaid’s family…
Medication, the modern miracles, have been one of the most over and misused items in our society. Medication was created so that countless lives could be saved, not destroyed. Nowadays, people use medicine for everything and some may even use Advil as poison. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, he takes a glimpse into the future and shows how people are even more reliant on drugs to get them through their day. In this not-so-fictional society, people overdose of sleeping pills regularly just so they don’t have to feel their “bad emotions”.…
No, Johnson and Johnson did not apply the same code of ethics regarding Risperdal that they applied to Tylenol in 1982. In the stated tylenol incident J&J's bottles of Tylenol was laced by a still unknown assassin and seven people died from taking the cyanide laced capsules. J&J's business ethics in this incident was in line with there code of conduct and J&J removed their stock from store shelves, so no more lives would be lost or in danger. in addition J&J when restocking their supply in stores J&J put a coupon inside of tylenol bottles to regain stakeholders trust and give them a significant discount.…
Recently ten people died n twelve days from fentanyl- laced pills. One of those ten people was Jerome Butler. Jerome got the fentanyl-laced pills from an acquaintance of his. The thing that is most shocking in this case was that Jerome Butler did not know that the pills he was given were laced with the potent drug. Butler was told that the drug was a less potent painkiller, Norco.…
America’s Wound The uprise of opioid related deaths is claiming countless lives everyday in the United States, medical and non-medical users are misusing this prescribed drug, and getting their hands on it, is easier than it should be. Millions of American users of this prescribed drug are easily becoming addicted and continue to be prescribed over and over again by doctors and physicians. Families are being torn apart and lives are being ruined by this highly addictive drug. The government has let this go on for too long.…
In the last century and a half, technological advancements have transformed American life at an unprecedented rate. The most significant effect these technologies have had on the U.S., and the rest of the world, is an increase of opportunity and influence. While technological achievements are often remembered for their improvements to American and global life, these same innovations have a history of bringing about a proportional amount of detriment to the world, although this comparable shift in scale often goes unnoticed. For instance, where medicines and vaccinations have become more refined and accessible, weaponized diseases and synthetic toxins have seen similar growth in their efficiency and availability. Understanding this technologically…
Within the past year, eleven million Americans abused an opioid pain reliever and two million became dependent on them. Opioids are one of the most accessible drugs because of how often they are prescribed and are often seen as a gateway to other drugs. Seeing that most opioid abusers are aged twenty-five to forty, it is safe to say that many have children or will have children. As with any type of drug, opioid use has a significant effect on the daily life of the user, which in turn, affects their loved ones. Children whose parents are abusing opioids have shown to be more delinquent, have more mental health problems, and have a higher chance of accidental overdose.…
Conclusion Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the total prescriptions per year in United States have increased rapidly, and the study done above confirms that these increasing prescribing rates are causing significant damage to the country’s health. As the number of prescriptions increase, the amount of prescription harm recorded not only follows but increases at a significantly higher rate. This disproves my original hypothesis and indicates that the prescription process is currently flawed, and this flaw primarily originates within the drug monitoring systems. Improving Prescription Drug Monitoring As explained by Dr. William Yang, the increasing prescription rates alone should not be alarming as they can be attributed to the advancements in diagnostic technology, but the current drug monitoring systems are incapable of managing the superior number of prescriptions. As highlighted by the recent efforts of INSPECT, the drug harm trends can be reversed by improving prescription drug protocols.…
I. Attention Catcher: The number of fatalities related to opioid overdoses has become one, if not the number one, public health emergencies among Americans. II. Listener Relevance Link: Prescription opioid medication had undergone a huge transformation making it more difficult for people to obtain and physicians to prescribe opioid medications to combat pain. III. Thesis Statement: The opioid epidemic is a local, state, and national problem that has caused all areas of government to focus on the problem and provide solutions to reduce the number or fatalities occurring daily from opioid overdoses.…
Science and technology has grown exponentially in recent years, issues such as heart disease and diabetes that once required surgery are now regulated with medicine. It has become routine for doctors to prescribe medicine because it is the easiest solution. Medication is the most efficient way to take care of illness, but what happens if we are prescribing too much? “Prescription painkillers kill six times more people each year than heroin does” (Wen). This harrowing statistic is why over prescription needs to stop.…
Paracetamol is one of the world’s most beneficial and resourceful analgesic and is widely used in present day. An analgesic, can be defined, as a chemical compound that relieves pain, reduces fever and inflammation. It works by hindering the enzyme cyclooxygenase which acts a catalyst to convert fatty acids to prostaglandins. Prostaglandins cause pain and inflammation to peripheral and central points in the nervous system2. Paracetamol, or Acetaminophen is created by the synthesis and preparation of an amide.…
Unfortunately, Johnson & Johnson was a victim of a domestic terrorist act, product tampering, resulting in seven deaths in the Chicago area from Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. •…
As frustrations continued to rise, tensions started to build in the American team. What started as a conflict between upper-level management and the two teams has resulted in conflict within each individual team. In response to the mounting frustrations, lack of communication, and high tension, Lance Paulson, the Drug Safety Director and highest ranking official in this operation, sent an email to the entire staff addressing the conflict present (Dominick, 2008). This may have been the breaking point, as people that didn’t know what was happening were now…