Bachelor of Nursing - Sedative Medication

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Topic 1: The use of Sedative medications to control behaviours is controversial and has
been described as being highly coercive and having significant effects on a person.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Controversial analysis of the use of psychotropic medications to control behaviours and
manage symptoms for mental illness.........................................................................................4
Identification of challenging aspects for nurses who administer psychotropic medication to
the consumer who poses significant risk of harm to self and others..........................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................9
Introduction
Sedative Medication is a controversial concern because of its irrelevant and insignificant
effects on human body. Sedatives could be stated as a slow poison by many but it is proved to
be an effective medicine and has helped many people in gaining back a normal mental
position (Help, 2020). The use and consumption of sedatives is the most critical part of its
usage and this decides on the productivity of its result to be negative or positive. Sedative
medications has been a major part of mental medication and this has helped in gaining some
positive results but there are many cases where the patient was observed to be dependent on
the sedatives and his dependency was for life long. Sedatives are stated as drugs and this
reveals the sensitivity it holds when one gets dependent on it. Sedatives are known to be
controlled substances which conveys that its production and sales all are regulated in a strict
manner (Sedatives, 2020). The addictive nature of it has made it a controlled substance and it
could cause people to be dependent on it beyond control. Sedative works through modifying
some of the nerves communications within the central nervous system. This relaxes the body

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and slows down the brains activity. The slowing down of brain and reduction in the working
of brain capacity on a continuous basis, impacts the health both mentally and physically.
Sedatives makes the neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid work overtime.
GABA is responsible for slowing down your brain. By upping its level of activity in the CNS,
sedatives allow GABA to produce a much stronger effect on your brain activity. The
acknowledgement of sedatives along with the psychotropic medicines, reveals the minor
difference between the two sensitive drugs (Ramanda, 2017). Sedative impacts the brain
while psychotropic medicines impacts the behaviour, emotions and psychology of the patient.
The impact of the two medicines are quite similar and both are considered to be a crucial
medicine for mental illness along with an effective one. The identification of psychtropic
medications and the controvercies it has over time along with sedative medicines would be
done, followed by the challenges that registered nurses witness in giving the concerned drugs
to the respective patients. The positive and the negatives of its usage would be acknowledged
along with the challenges that is faced by the nursing industry of mental patients.
Controversial analysis of the use of psychotropic medications to control behaviours and
manage symptoms for mental illness
According to Claridge et al. (2018) the World Health Organisation revealed an estimated data
which states that about 25% of the population is expected to experience mental illness at
some point of time. The most common and generally witnessed mental illness are depression
and anxiety which could exist in human irrespective of age gender, caste, ethnicity,
background, etc. There has been no specific result through research as what causes the mental
illness or mental health impairment. Environmental and genetic factors are often the
combination which predispose a person to a specific problem. For some other causes, the
traumatic events and serious injuries are the cause of psychological issues or disorders. It has
been stated by Cavanagh & Smith (2018), that psychotropic drugs are not sufficient to

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overcome mental illness and the health care takers has been caring a view that the people use
psychotropic as a supplement to therapy and not as a replacement for it. The psychotropic
therapy needs to be supported by the social aspect too in order to gain productive and fruitful
results. This aspect is challenged by Davies & Mulsant (2018), that if the therapy requires
additional and outer social therapy than what the benefit of taking up the psychotropic
therapy. Family, friends, lifestyle, structured therapy, and many other social protocols needs
to be followed for making the concerned therapy effective and fruitful, this suggests that the
psychotropic therapy do not have the capability of transforming or treating the mental issue.
An additional view of Ahn & Vassileva (2016), sedative medications along with the
psychotropic medication carries a significant and productive capability to treat and person
effectively and productively. The two medications that is sedative and psychotropic both
works through transforming the thought process of the patient but the process and the style of
treatment is completely different. Sedative medicines slows down the brain capacity to
command and this reduces the actions and thinking ability of the patient. It is used mainly in
some crucial situations where the patient is not in control or requires peace of mind for time
being (Spivak et al. 2018). On the other hand, psychotropic medication provides the patient
with a simple thought process which needs to be built on through social support and external
forces. In psychotropic medication, the dependency on medicine is a mental aspect of the
patient while in the sedative medication, the dependency is based on physical requirement.
The two medications are completely different.
On the contrary, it has been opined by Ralevski et al. (2017), that the psychotropic
medications are not effective and it is more of a psychological factor than medicinal. There
has been a case where the patients have revealed that the psychotropic medicines have been
ineffective. There has been many doctors who carry a view that psychotropic medicines are
effective just like the physical illness medicines are. The biological medicines enhances the