A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician's orders (e.g., medication administration).
The Sinclair Method. 1  The Sinclair Method (TSM) is a treatment for alcohol addiction that uses a technique called pharmacological extinctionâthe use of an opiate blocker to turn habit-forming behaviors into habit erasing behaviors. The effect returns a personâs craving for alcohol to its pre-addiction state.
Dextromethorphan (DXM or DM) is an antitussive (cough suppressant) drug of the morphinan class with sedative and dissociative properties.eneric Dextromethorphan syrup. The primary use of dextromethorphan is as a cough suppressant, for the temporary relief of cough caused by minor throat and bronchial irritation (such as commonly accompanies the flu and common cold), as well as those resulting from inhaled particle irritants.