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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:
3. What web sites are reputable for the patient?
The teaching plan for this patient will be on the following topics:-
# Description of disease .
# Provision of knowledge regarding health related websites
# Adverse effect of taking medications without consultation.
1 Chrohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. It is also known as regional enteritis. In this disease there is inflammation of gastric tract which extends through all layers. The common parts affected are distal ilieum and colon
The sign and symptoms are :-
Right quadrant lower abdominal pain which is crampy in nature
Abdominal tenderness
Diarrhea
Weight loss due to malnutrition
Fever with leukocytosis due to inflammation.
2. Reliable Websites which can be used by the consumers or patient to get the knowledge regarding a disease conditions and medication are:-
- Medscape
- Healthline
- Medline
- Medi net
- CDC
- Mayo clinic
- Drugs.com
- NHIC - national health information center
- NCAM - national center for complementary and alternative medicine.
All these provide updates , accurate information regarding diseases and healthcare medicine .
3. The patient was taking aloe Vera without consulting the doctor for her disease. Although Aloe Vera is a natural herb and it has many benefits but we don't have any scientific evidence that is beneficial in chrohn's disease. The patient must be explained of the adverse effects which might have occurred if any reaction takes place between aloe Vera and allopathy medicines . The adverse reaction are so harmful that it can be fatal also. The patient must be advised not to take any over the counter medicine as it can be fatal by causing severe changes the biochemical properties of our body.