Nursing Interventions for Drug Addiction :
Narcotics, Psychotropic and Other Addictive Substance
- Overdose Conditions
Goal :
Patients do not experience life threatening
Nursing Intervention :- Observation of vital signs, consciousness in 15 minutes in the first 3 hours, 30 minutes to 3 hours the second, each 1 hour in the next 24 hours
- Work with the doctor for medication
- Observation of fluid balance
- Maintain patient safety
- Accompany patient
- Fixation if necessary
- Intoxication Condition
Goal :
Intoxication in patients can be overcome, anxiety is reduced / lost
Nursing Intervention :- Establish trusting relationship
- Assessing the level of anxiety
- Speak in simple language, short and easy to understand
- Listen to the patient talk
- Frequent use of therapeutic communication
- Avoid the attitude that creates a feeling of suspicion, stick to the promise, to give real answers, do not whisper in front of the patient, be firm, friendly.
- Withdrawal Condition
Nursing Intervention :- Observation of the signs of seizures
- Give a warm compress on the abdomen when the spasms
- Providing care to patients delusions, hallucinations: primarily to reduce the feeling that caused this problem: fear, suspicion, anxiety, excessive joy, justify a wrong perception
- Working together with the doctor in providing pain medication.
- Detoxication Condition
Nursing Intervention :- Practice concentration: group held a morning discussion
- Provide counseling to moral and spiritual changes that deviate, change the patient to become responsible human beings, mentally healthy, feeling grateful, and optimistic
- Preparing patients to return to the community, by working with social workers, psychologists.
