Opioid misuse/addiction Health, Medicine, Nursing Essay
Screening and Guidelines: Review how the disease is diagnosed (opioid misuse/addiction) and current national standards (guidelines). Pick one screening test and review its sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and cost.
Plan: Integrating evidence, provide a plan of how a nurse practitioner will address this chronic health condition after graduation. Provide three specific interventions that are based on the evidence and include how you will measure outcomes (how will you know that the interventions have utility, are useful?) Note: Consider primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions as well as the integration of health policy advocacy efforts. All interventions should be based on evidence – connected to a resource such as a scholarly piece of research.
Opioid Misuse
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Opioid Misuse
Screening and Guidelines
The diagnosis for opioid misuse requires a comprehensive evaluation, including screening by psychologists or psychotherapists. The presence of substances can be done using blood tests, urine tests, and other lab tests in order to establish the levels of opioid usage in an individual. The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) is a questionnaire with 5-items that provides scores based on the severity of dependence on opioids. There is a four-point scale on the five items, and the total score is obtained by adding the individual rating on each item. The level of dependence is based on the score. It is easier, cheap, and can be used to make accurate predictions about opioids dependence on individuals (Lindley, Cox, & Cochran, 2019).
Plan
The first step is detoxification or ma...