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The document discusses the health problem of self-medication and the nursing intervention to address it. The objectives are for the family to stop self-medicating and take prescribed medications within two months after intervention. The intervention aims to help the family understand self-medication as a health threat, identify its effects, understand the importance of medical attention before taking medications, and take medicines as prescribed.

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FNCP

The document discusses the health problem of self-medication and the nursing intervention to address it. The objectives are for the family to stop self-medicating and take prescribed medications within two months after intervention. The intervention aims to help the family understand self-medication as a health threat, identify its effects, understand the importance of medical attention before taking medications, and take medicines as prescribed.

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Health Problem Self-medication as health threat

Family Health Problem a. Inability to recognize selfmedication as health threat due to inadequate knowledge about the effect of selfmedicating.

Objectives After nursing intervention, the family will stop selfmedicating and will take necessary measures as to take prescribed medications within two months.

Implementation Assess the level of understanding of client on how they perceived self-medication as health threat.

Outcome Criteria

Method/Tools

b. Inability to make decisions with respect to taking appropriate health action due to: b.1. Low salience of the problem b.2. Inaccessibility of appropriate resources of are due to financial constraint

After nursing intervention, the family will be able to: a. Define what self-medication is. Discuss the definition of self-medication to the family Was the family been able to understand what self-medication is? __ Y __ N Discussion

b. Identify the various healthrelated effects of selfmedicating

Educate the family that self-medication is not safe and emphasize that it is still safest to take prescribed meds.

Was the family been able to identify at least 2 health-related effects of selfmedication? __ Y __ N

Discussion

c. Verbalize understanding

Instruct the patient to seek for medical

Was the family able Discussion to understand why

why it is needed attention for proper to not selfprescription of prescribed medication. medicines and the importance of consulting a physician.

it is necessary to seek medical attention before taking medications? __ Y __ N

d. The family will take medicines as prescribed by the physician.

Encourage them to utilize existing resources so he could have afforded medical consultation and to finance medication that will be prescribed.

Was the family able Discussion to seek medical attention before taking medication? __ Y __ N

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