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AGS is an autosomal-dominant condition affecting several body systems and characterized by neonatal jaundice along with a paucity of intrahepatic bile ducts on liver histology. It is also known as Alagille-Watson syndrome or arterio-hepatic dysplasia, and is caused by defects in the Notch signaling pathway. The disease affects the liver, heart, skeleton, eyes, kidneys, central nervous system, and is associated with characteristic facial features. (1, 2) The syndrome was first described by…

An Opioid is a medication that lessens pain; this is achieved by reducing the intensity of pain signals from the central nervous system’s location, inside the amygdala, which controls emotion which will decrease the effects of pain slowly. An example of these types of medication is Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, Morphine, Codeine, and other drugs with related functions. They are often prescribed for a variety of painful conditions as well as before and after surgery. However, all of these are used…

On Tuesday, October 4th, I spent the day at The Miriam Hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory. Cardiac catheterization is an invasive On Tuesday, October 4th, I spent the day at The Miriam Hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory. Cardiac catheterization is an invasive diagnostic procedure that uses imaging equipment to identify if a patient has disease of the heart muscles, valves or coronary arteries (Smeltzer, 2011). Upon arriving at 0720 the nurse manager greeted me and the other…

Opioids are drugs often prescribed by a physician that are intended to relieve pain in the body that affects the nervous system. Most of opioids are prescribed after injury or surgery and the continued use of the drugs have lead to dependence of the drug. In the United States, Opioid use has increased through out the years. The overuse of these drugs haves created an epidemic in the United States. The use of opioids has affected millions of people and has led to many over doses and has been…

The NCLEX exam is something that I am truly looking forward to taking. It is scary to think about how close I am to graduation and the next big step in my career is to pass my board exam. Some of my strengths when it comes to test taking over two years of practicing NCLEX style questions are: being able to critically think, reading the question and being able to identify what is being asked. Some of my weaknesses when it comes to test taking are time management. Although, I have tried my best to…

At age 23, she pleaded guilty to falsifying documents and stealing many different types of prescription drugs from elderly in need, including fentanyl, morphine, hydromorphone, and hydrocodone (United States Attorneys Office, northern district of Iowa). These are powerful opioids (or pain relievers) for her own personal use. By doing this she made the people the medicine should have gone to suffer…

drugs does the same. We have drug dealers and traffickers running in the shadows in an effort to make a buck without being sent to jail. There is no “quality control” of the drugs, and we have many stories of drugs being laced with lethal doses of fentanyl. Would government control of the drug market allow for safer drug use? That is a difficult question to answer. I moved to Illinois from Seattle, Washington. Washington was one of the first states to legalize marijuana. A friend of mine worked…

On the labor and delivery floor, during my preceptorship, many patients were induced by a medication called Dinoprostone. If the patients were being induced they would come in the night before and be admitted. At this time the nurses orient the patient and family to their room, complete the labor and delivery admission record, hook the patient up to the fetal monitors, and perform an assessment that includes maternal vital signs, heart and lung sounds, deep tendon reflexes, and signs of edema.…

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome The cost in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for an infant with neonatal abstinence syndrome is an average of $3,500 per day, with an average length of stay of 30 days. In 2009, 77.6% of infants with NAS were covered by state Medicaid programs (Patrick, et al., 2012). Sometimes also referred to as neonatal withdrawal syndrome, it is a group of complications that occur in a baby after being exposed to narcotics in the womb. Some problems that can occur in a…

Teen Drug Abuse Have you ever thought of how it feels to lose your precious child to drug addiction? My neighbor Emily recently lost her teenage daughter Audrey who was a drug addict. Audrey was only 15 years old when she passed away. No one knew she was a drug addict, including her mother, until the autopsy reported the cause of her death. Audrey was using over the counter drug to get high mostly at night when her mother was sleeping. Audrey’s mother said “I thought my daughter was living a…