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Current trends and clinical alerts in Nursing Pharmacology  Reporters Bea B. Lara John JC Paculan Excel Joyce Villareal  Filipino Culture Values and Practices in Relation to Drug Administration Health Beliefs and Behaviors Filipino older adults tend to cope with illness w...

Current trends and clinical alerts in Nursing Pharmacology  Reporters Bea B. Lara John JC Paculan Excel Joyce Villareal  Filipino Culture Values and Practices in Relation to Drug Administration Health Beliefs and Behaviors Filipino older adults tend to cope with illness with the help of family and friends, and by faith in God. Complete cure or even the slightest improvement in a disease or illness is viewed as a miracle. Filipino families greatly influence patient’s decisions about health care. Patients subjugate personal needs and tend to go along with the demands of a more authorities family figure in order to maintain group harmony. Filipinos may even resort to utilizing traditional home remedies such as alternative or complimentary means of treatment. Seeking medical advice from family members or friends who are health professionals Health Practice Studies of health practices among Filipino Americans suggest that people originally from rural areas in the Philippines are more knowledgeable regarding home remedies such as with the use of herbs and roots, traditional healing techniques and supernatural ailments. People in rural areas are used to friendly and accommodating folk healers and expect the same treatment from physicians. The various types of healers common throughout the Philippines include: Albularyo Manghihilot Known as the general Known as traditional massage practitioner of traditional therapists, manghihilots medicine, albularyos use a practice hilot, a form of mix of herbal remedies, therapeutic massage. They prayers, and rituals. are sought for muscle pains, sprains, and other bodily discomforts, and are believed to help in aligning the body's energies. The various types of healers common throughout the Philippines include: Faith Healers Babaylan Known as individuals who Known as spiritual leaders perform healing through and healers in indigenous prayers, rituals, and Filipino communities, sometimes through what is babaylans performed rituals, believed to be divine communicated with spirits, intervention. They are and provided healing through sought for both physical spiritual means. and spiritual ailments. New Technologies Related to Drug Administration Innovative Technologies of Drug Delivery Drug delivery is the procedure of administration of a pharmaceutical drug component into the body through various ways to get the pharmacological action of the drug. Drug delivery technologies transform the drug release profiles, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics parameters to improve product efficacy and safety, as well as patient convenience and compliance. In the recent days the innovative & smart drug delivery technologies are very much important to reach the medicaments to proper site through proper way. There are many technologies are involved like: Needle free technology Microsphere drug delivery Poorly soluble drug formulation Jet injectors for vaccine delivery Site or receptor specific delivery Self-emulsifying drug delivery system Particle size reduction IV-IV st Needle free technology Needle free injection technology (NFIT)is an extremely broad concept which include a wide range of drug delivery systems that drive drugs through the skin using any of the forces as Lorentz, Shock waves, pressure by gas or electrophoresis which propels the drug through the skin, virtually nullifying the use of hypodermic needle.  Microsphere drug delivery The microsphere is an attractive system for drug delivery because it is made out of biodegradable polymers that are known to pose no threat to the body and can hold a diverse array of drugs that can be delivered to the patient through a simple injection.  Poorly soluble drug formulation These drugs can be successfully formulated for oral administration, but care needs to be taken with formulation design to ensure consistent bioavailability. Essentially the options available involve either reduction of particle size (of crystalline drug) or formulation of the drug in solution, as an amorphous system or lipid formulation. Jet injectors for vaccine delivery A jet injector, also known as a jet gun injector, air gun, or pneumatic injector, is a medical instrument that uses a high- pressure jet of liquid medication to penetrate the skin and deliver medication under the skin without a needle.  Government Sites Related to Drugs 1. Department of Justice (DOJ) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Criminal Justice Reference Service 2. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Food & Drug Administration (FDA) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Substance Abuse & Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) 3. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) 4. Govinfo (Code of Federal Regulations) 5. 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