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You are the nurse assigned to a young 32-year mother of two young children who was recently diagnosed with Chrohn’s disease. She has taken a medical leave of absence form the law firm where she works as a paralegal assistant. Although she has reported adhering to her diet and medication regimen, she has had two recent admissions to the hospital in the past month with a flare-up of her disease. She states she is using Wikipedia for her health care information and is using Aloe Vera as a supplement without consulting her healthcare provider. Using electronic tool presented in chapter 16, devise a teaching plan for this patient. Please pick at least two that would be appropriate for this patient. What website would you recommend for her to use for online information? Some things to consider when you are doing this case study:
4. What do you think her health literacy is at?
Not everyone knows about the diseases and drugs they take as a patient. In this case the patient is disturbed by her disease condition and wants to try different remedies to solve her issues. She is maintaining adherence to drug and having proper diet to improve her health and also takes a natural herb withouy physicians knowledge to relieve symptoms by taking information from Wikipedia .
Her health literacy is average as she doesn't not know that she should inform her doctor before taking any unprescribed drug and also not aware of the medical website where she should search for her queries regarding diseases.
The patient must be advised to not to take any over the counter medicines because it can be fatal by causing drastic biochemical changes. Although AloeVera is know for its anti oxidant ,anti inflammatory ,anti bacterial properties these are not scientifically proven for the particular disease. It might have caused some severe reactions if it had any biochemical changes with the allopathy medicine she was taking . So, it's better to take medicine only under physicians knowledge.