Question

1.     Communication barriers and cultural differences may cause noncompliance with drug therapy. How can the allied health professional be sure that those from other cultures comply with medication therapy?

2.    Compare the scientific-biomedical, holistic, and magicoreligious paradigms of health and illness. How can the allied health professional work with those of different cultures to promote understanding of medicinal treatment?

3.     What variables (weight, height, and so on) affect drug dosage and actions? What does the allied health professional need to do to ensure correct dosage?

Answer 1

1.It is a fact that communication barriers and cultural differences affect drug therapy.For all people,the mode of communication is through a common language,that is English.In certain conditions,where language is not adequate for the patient,we have to look for a language entrepreneur.Effective communication with patients and health care worker is a key process in safe and quality health care.In case of drug therapy,the health worker should give medicine vto the patient by herself.Thatbis the health worker should be there when the patient takes medicine.This may create less problems with the drug communication barriers with foreign language patients..Development and dissemination of communication tools are needed to support pharmacist in counseling big a diverse migrant population.

s a2.There is difference in health and illness beliefs , which falls into three major groups,that is a)the magico-religious paradigm-in this paradigm,illness has a super natural cause as opposed to injury,which has a specific and obvious cause.Consequently,the cure of illness lies in the supernatural or spiritual dimension.The cure for illness,while it may involve medication,is spiritual and involves rituals prayer and possibly some form of sacrifice.Health may be seen as a sign of supernatural favour,and illness course of punishment.In this paradigm,it is also commonly believed that the actions of the individual may affect the health of the community.For treatment within a modern scientific framework to be successful,however patients must be allowed expression of the spiritual dimension and access to practitioners who practice within the magico-religious framework is important.b)the biomedical paradigm-in is the dominant belief among western cultures,but not necessarily the only one.According to this paradigm,there is demonstrable cause and effect relationship for all types of illness.C)holistic paradigm-in this,human beings are seen as part of nature.They have to need a balence and harmony with the laws that govern cosmos.Disturbing cosmic balence cause imbalance.

3)factors affecting drug dosage and action arrange, weight,sex,phys phys and emotional condition of the patient,disease process especially kidney diseases,causative microorganism,medical history, allergies etc.Medicines management is a core nursing skill.Nurses need to understand the measurements used for drug dosages and br ablevto convert between these different unit of measurements.Nurses use different methods bto calculate the volume to administer solutions or ampoules depending on a variety big factors,and do not necessarily stick to one method.Double checking is recommended in all calculations.Tovadminister the forreco dose we needvto calculate the dose for the patient and then calculate how many millilitres of the infusion need to be administered per hour to give the prescribed dose