Lillian has been on her medication for pneumonia for 24 hours. The physician says the pneumonia is improving, but she also is having an acute exacerbation of her COPD and a chronic irregular heart rate. Her vital signs are T 37C, B/P 140/87, P 82 and irregular, R 12, and pulse oximetry 92% on 2L O2 per nasal cannula. The […]

Answer the following discussion using the outcomes below.  Please choose a Respiratory Medication and discuss its implications and potential interactions when taken with foods and home remedies. What would you teach a patient about your chosen drug?  Course Outcomes covered in this week’s discussion include: Apply the concepts of pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenomics to the use of specific medication […]

Scenario: As a nurse practitioner, you prescribe medications for your patients. You make an error when prescribing medication to a 5-year-old patient. Rather than dosing him appropriately, you prescribe a dose suitable for an adult. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following: Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved, […]

Preparing the assignment to follow these guidelines when completing this assignment 1. Choose a pharmacological agent that has been on the market for less than 5 years.  2. Research the literature and obtain two to three resources for current, evidence-based information related to the pharmacological agent.  3. Create a teaching brochure and write a one-page paper following these guidelines.  a. […]

Preparing the assignment to follow these guidelines when completing this assignment 1. Choose a pharmacological agent that has been on the market for less than 5 years.  2. Research the literature and obtain two to three resources for current, evidence-based information related to the pharmacological agent.  3. Create a teaching brochure and write a one-page paper following these guidelines.  a. […]

Using the templates below,  select an anti-infective medication by filling in the medication template and associated system disorder by filling in the system disorder template.  Then write an analysis describing how the selected medication class relates to the selected system’s disorder. APA FORMAT with references! • 300 words minimum.  • A strong connection and correlation are made between the selected […]