As an advanced practice nurse, you will likely experience patient encounters with complex comorbidities. For example, consider a female patient who is pregnant who also presents with hypertension, diabetes, and has a recent tuberculosis infection. How might the underlying pathophysiology of these conditions affect the pharmacotherapeutics you might recommend to help address your patients health needs? What education strategies might you recommend for ensuring positive patient health outcomes?
For this Discussion, you will be assigned a patient case study and will consider how to address the patients current drug therapy plans. You will then suggest recommendations on how to revise these drug therapy plans to ensure effective, safe, and quality patient care for positive patient health outcomes.
To Prepare
Review the Resources for this module and reflect on the different health needs and body systems presented.
Your Instructor will assign you a complex case study to focus on for this Discussion.
Consider how you will practice critical decision making for prescribing appropriate drugs and treatment to address the complex patient health needs in the patient case study you selected.
ASSIGNMENT: Case study has been attached below for this assignment.
Post a brief description of your patients health needs from the patient case study you assigned. Be specific. Then, explain the type of treatment regimen you would recommend for treating your patient, including the choice or pharmacotherapeutics you would recommend and explain why. Be sure to justify your response. Explain a patient education strategy you might recommend for assisting your patient with the management of their health needs. Be specific and provide examples.
Required Readings
Rosenthal, L. D., & Burchum, J. R. (2018). Lehnes pharmacotherapeutics for advacned practice providers. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
Chapter 44, Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Drugs (pp. 451472)
Chapter 45, Drugs for Deficiency Anemias (pp. 473483)
Chapter 48, Estrogens and Progestins: Basic Pharmacology and Noncontraceptive Applications (pp. 521533)
Chapter 49, Birth Control (pp. 535547)
Chapter 50, Androgens (pp. 549556)
Chapter 51, Drugs for Erectile Dysfunction and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (pp. 557569)
Chapter 68, Basic Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy (pp. 769781)
Chapter 69, Drugs That Weaken the Bacterial Cell Wall I: Penicillins (pp. 783790)
Chapter 73, Sulfonamides and Trimethoprim (pp. 619826)
Chapter 74, Drug Therapy of Urinary Tract Infections (pp. 827831)
Chapter 75, Antimycobacterial Agents (pp. 833847)
Chapter 76, Miscellaneous Antibacterial Drugs (pp. 849853)
Chapter 77, Antifungal Agents (pp. 855866)
Chapter 78, Antiviral Agents I: Drugs for Non-HIV Viral Infections (pp. 867886)
Chapter 80, Drug Therapy of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (pp. 905911)
Lunenfeld, B., Mskhalaya, G., Zitzmann, M., Arver, S., Kalinchenko, S., Tishova, Y., & Morgentaler, A. (2015). Recommendations on the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of hypogonadism in men. Aging Male, 18(1), 515. doi:10.3109/13685538.2015.1004049
This article presents recommendations on the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of hypogonadism in men. Reflect on the concepts presented and consider how this might impact your role as an advanced practice nurse in treating mens health disorders.
Montaner, J. S. G., Lima, V. D., Harrigan, P. R., Loureno, L., Yip, B., Nosyk, B., Kendall, P. (2014). Expansion of HAART coverage is associated with sustained decreases in HIV/AIDS morbidity, mortality and HIV transmission: The HIV Treatment as Prevention experience in a Canadian setting. PLoS ONE, 9(2), e87872. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087872
This study examines HAART therapy and its sustainability and profound population-level decrease in morbidity, mortality, and HIV transmission.
Roberts, H., & Hickey, M. (2016). Managing the menopause: An update. Maturitas, 86(2016), 5358. .https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.01.007
This article provides an update on treatments on Vasomotor symptoms (VMS), genito-urinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), sleep disturbance, sexual dysfunction, and mood disturbance that are common during the menopause transition.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2014). Guide to clinical preventive services, 2014: Section 2. Recommendations for adults. Retrieved from http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/clinicians-providers/guidelines-recommendations/guide/section2.html
