Description
You are a patient who is taking 5 different medications. You take the following medications at the following times:
Enteric Coated Aspirin 325mg tabs: 0800
Escitalopram 10mg tabs: 0600
Ibuprofen 200mg tabs: 1200, 1900
Lisinopril 20 mg tabs: 0600, 1500
Melatonin 10mg tabs: 1900
Write a 3 page paper including:
a) What barriers you'd encounter in trying to being adherent to taking your medications
b) What barriers you'd encounter if trying to following a dietary guideline
c) Any tools that would help you be more successful in taking the medications on time and improve patient safety
d) The importance of paitent preferences, vaules and background in providing patient centered care
Explanation & Answer
I have attached the response.
Running head: PATIENT REFLECTION
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Patient Reflection
Name
Institutional Affiliation
PATIENT REFLECTION
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Patient Reflection
Barriers in Trying To Being Adherent to Taking Your Medications
As a patient, there are several reasons that would make me reluctant to take the outlined
medications. The non-adherence would either be intentional or nonintentional and could be
attributed to:
i.
Fear-one of the reasons that would negatively influence failure to take the
medications is fear of the potential side effects. There might be side effects
experienced when taking the medications and the belief that such side effects would
only increase which would make me intentionally stop.
ii.
Cost-the cost of all the medications combined is not cheap, and hence I might be
forced to ration or fail to fill the prescription altogether.
iii.
Further, there is a possibility that I may not understand fully the need for the
medicine, or fail to see results immediately hence being discouraged.
iv.
There is a great number of different medications that I am expected to ta...
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