As a new nurse, you have had clients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG) and are concerned about their level of understanding of the disease process. You have taken on the task of developing a teaching pamphlet to provide clear discharge instructions including information on the disease, support resources, medication teaching, and signs and symptoms of Myasthenic Crisis. You will include the following information in the pamphlet.
Describe the disease process for MG.
List (2) local community resources available that can provide support such as:
Nutrition.
Transportation.
Psychosocial needs such as support groups.
Include medication administration instructions and the importance of timing of medication delivery.
Include signs of symptoms of Myasthenic Crisis and when to notify health care provider.
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Multidimensional Care
Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is characterized by weakness and rapid fatigue of any of the muscles under your voluntary control. It is caused by a breakdown in the normal communication between nerves and muscles. In MG, your immune system produces antibodies that block or destroy many of your muscles` receptor sites for a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. With fewer receptor sites available, your muscles receive fewer nerve signals, resulting in weakness. Antibodies can also block the function of a protein called muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase, sometimes referred to as MuSK. This protein is involved in forming the nerve-muscle junction. Antibodies against this protein can lead to MG.
ave saw that there is a distinction in predominance in ladies and men with Schizophrenia. As per Rena Li and Xi Ma, two Psychiatrist at the University of Tennessee, “Schizophrenia is more successive in men. Female beginning is normally 3-5 years after the fact than guys. It is currently acknowledged that men has a solitary pinnacle age for beginning which is somewhere in the range of 21 and 25 years of age and ladies have two pinnacles time of beginning, one somewhere in the range of 25 and 30 years of age”. There’s no exploration that has clarified why ladies are determined to have Schizophrenia later than men aside from the similarity that ladies with Schizophrenia can work with it longer. Most men at an early age start to give indications of Schizophrenia by disengaging themselves, relating in infinitesimal measures of social movement, and mishandling controlled substances. Which is disturbing so that a parent might see their kid have this abrupt change in conduct regularly bringing about seeing a therapist and being determined to have Schizophrenia. Notwithstanding, ladies by and large give indications of Schizophrenia as a sob for help their mind-set starts to change acting especially discouraged and done having inspiration to do anything. Extreme unyielding apathy toward the things inside their life that they used to appreciate. Man likewise, are bound to have mental issues from the beginning and deferred memory. However, ladies that were determined to have the problem later on down the line were almost certain than men to have dreams and fantasies.
One more predominance that influences the determination pace of Schizophrenia is race. Arnold Barnes, Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina A&T, the overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia in African Americans joined by the underdiagnosis of state of mind problems. Which established that African Americans were bound to be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia than Caucasians leaving them powerless to expanded danger of being put into mental offices and given some unacceptable medication treatment. Barnes tends to this racial difference by expressing, “indications of unwanted conduct that doesn’t explicitly meet the rules of Schizophrenia yet, they’re considered to be strange or disturbing by specialist were as yet named as Schizophrenia rather than a psychological problem” (668). Because of the way that specialists point of view can regularly be corrupted by their very own convictions of how an individual should behave. Robert Schwartz and David