Cocaine Toxicity Patient Profile N.C. is a 34-year-old man who was admitted to the emergency department with chest pain tachycardia, dizziness, nausea, and severe migraine-like headache. Subjective Data . • He thinks he is having a heart attack. Admits he was at a party earlier in the evening drinking alcohol, smoking pot, and snorting cocaine. States he became irritable and restless. States he has experienced an increased need for cocaine in the past few months. Objective Data . . CASE STUDY ♥ . Appears extremely nervous and irritable Appears pale and diaphoretic Has tremors BP 210/110, HR 100 bpm, RR 30 5. Priority Decision: What are the priority nursing interventions?

Cocaine Toxicity Patient Profile N.C. is a 34-year-old man who was admitted to the emergency department with chest pain tachycardia, dizziness, nausea, and severe migraine-like headache. Subjective Data . • He thinks he is having a heart attack. Admits he was at a party earlier in the evening drinking alcohol, smoking pot, and snorting cocaine. States he became irritable and restless. States he has experienced an increased need for cocaine in the past few months. Objective Data . . CASE STUDY ♥ . Appears extremely nervous and irritable Appears pale and diaphoretic Has tremors BP 210/110, HR 100 bpm, RR 30 5. Priority Decision: What are the priority nursing interventions?

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CASE STUDY Cocaine Toxicity Patient Profile N.C. is a 34-year-old man who was admitted to the emergency department with chest pain, tachycardia, dizziness, nausea, and severe migraine-like headache. Subjective Data • He thinks he is having a heart attack. • Admits he was at a party earlier in the evening drinking alcohol, smoking pot, and snorting cocaine. • States he became irritable and restless. • States he has experienced an increased need for cocaine in the past few months. Objective Data • Appears extremely nervous and iritable • Appears pale and diaphoretic • Has tremors • BP 210/110, HR 100 bpm, RR 30 2. How should questions related to these areas be addressed?
CASE STUDY Cocaine Toxicity Patient Profile N.C. is a 34-year-old man who was admitted to the emergency department with chest pain, tachycardia, dizziness, nausea, and severe migraine-like headache. Subjective Data • He thinks he is having a heart attack. - Admits he was at a party earlier in the evening drinking alcohol, smoking pot, and snorting cocaine. States he became irritable and restless. States he has experienced an increased need for cocaine in the past few months. Objective Data Appears extremely nervous and irritable · Appears pale and diaphoretic •Has tremors · BP 210/110, HR 100 bpm, RR 30 3. What other clues should the nurse be alert for in assessing N.C.'s drug use?
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CASE STUDY Cocaine Toxicity Patient Profile N.C. is a 34-year-old man who was admitted to the emergency department with chest pain tachycardia, dizziness, nausea, and severe migraine-like headache. Subjective Data • He thinks he is having a heart attack. Admits he was at a party earlier in the evening drinking alcohol, smoking pot, and snorting cocaine. States he became irritable and restless. States he has experienced an increased need for cocaine in the past few months. Objective Data • Appears extremely nervous and irritable • Appears pale and diaphoretic Has tremors • BP 210/110, HR 100 bpm, RR 30 5. Priority Decision: What are the priority nursing interventions?
Case Study (Drugs of Abuse) Suzanne has come by the free “drop-in” counseling clinic where you work to get some information and advice. Suzanne is a 22-year-old single woman who has been living with her boyfriend Jack in Manhattan’s lower east side for the last four years. She and Jack have been heroin addicts for as many years. When Suzanne was 10 years old, her father, whom she says was a very heavy drinker, left her mom and the kids and never came back. At 14 she started drinking and smoking marijuana. At 16 she had dropped out of high school and at 18 she moved in with Jack. He introduced her to heroin. She reports using about a 1/2 gram of heroin per day just to be able to function and feel comfortable. In order to pay for the heroin and pay the rent on their apartment, Jack doesn’t work, instead, she works the streets at night. She usually drinks four or five beers each night before going out to work. If she can’t score enough heroin, she will try to score either some Valium or…
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