Pathways to Safer Opioid Use Assignment

Pathways to Safer Opioid Use Assignment

Pathways to Safer Opioid Use Assignment

Link for pathways to safer opioid use simulation https://health.gov/hcq/trainings/pathways/index.html

Character: James Parker

(Previous paper attached)

These are the decisions used in the previous Simulation, please pick different answer from the ones below.

1. Tell him is an 8 explain why

2. Ask about alternative treatment options

3. Risk having to stay longer

4.Yes ask why it is necessary

5.Do Both

6.Go see a pyschologist

• You will proceed through the simulation as James Parker again, but make different decisions to see the different effects they cause.
• You will then write a 3 page paper describing the process you went through and the results in comparison to last week that you got based on the different decisions you made as James. State how James became addicted and what both the patient and the caregivers could have done to prevent this.
• Provide and integrate at least two scholarly resources within your paper that support prevention of opioid addiction.
•  This paper must be written in APA format, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, double-spaced with 1-inch margins.

Sample Resonpse

Advanced Pharmacology

I assumed the role of James Parker who is a patient, living with chronic back pain, and uses pain medication to alleviate the pain, but it does not always works and at times Mr. Parker feels hopeless. In the first activity I decide for Mr. Parker to pick an 8 and explain the reason why. The physician’s response made Mr. Parker feel like the physician did not believe him because on his last visit he also said his pain was an 8 on the pain scale.

The physician did not seem interested in Mr. Parker’s pain level; he automatically diagnosed the patient with depression, prescribing antidepressant, antianxiety and insomnia medication, along with the opioids. I asked for alternative option because he is taking more medications but nothing to treat the actual back pain. The physician did not take the patient’s pain serious, just brushed off Mr. Parker concern; he tells the patient the medications are his best option.

The physician should of given the patient the respect to allow him to participate in his treatment, but did not provide alternative treatments that the patient was requesting because he was in a rush to see the following patients

… Kindly place an order for a more comprehensive response.