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NURS 6521: Advance Pharmacolog ASTHMA AND STEPWISE MANAGEMENT

Scenario 2: A friend calls and asks you to prescribe a medication for her. You have this autonomy, but you do not have your friend’s medical history. You write the prescription anyway. Ethical and legal implications for prescriber and patient Published guidelines recommend against care for one's self or family and friends other than in exceptional situations, there are no professional organizations that condones this practice. The very first code of medical ethics drafted by the Americ...

Dacia Woessner Week 1 NURS 6521 Main Post Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics There have been several times that I have experienced giving a drug and the desired outcome was not met. Or the desired outcome was on the extreme end. One drug I see this with is Diltiazem. This is given in the ER often for acute rapid a fib. However, many patients drop their rate and blood pressure so fast it causes them to become diaphoretic and hypotensive with the risk of passing out. The other drug I see...

Pneumonia is a type of a lower respiratory infection. There are several different causes of pneumonia: bacteria, viruses, and fungi (Huether, & McCance, 2017). Bacteria pneumonia is the most common cause of pneumonia in adults, streptococcus pneumoniae and pneumococcus being the most common bacteria (Pneumonia, n.d.). Pneumococcus is the leading cause of death of all the types of pneumonia (Huether, & McCance, 2017). Viral pneumonias are typically caused by viruses that infect the airway tra...

Nurs 6521 Advanced Pharmacology Week 5 Headaches, a neurological disorder can present several complications for patients of all ages. It affects patients physically and emotionally, impacting judgment, school and/or job performance, and relationships with family and friends. The pain of a headache can range from mild to severe, be acute or chronic, and may be hours to days in duration (Arcangelo, Peterson, Wilbur, & Reinhold, 2017). Headaches are the pain in any region of the head. Heada...

QUESTION 1 1. CC: "I have been having terrible chest and arm pain for the past 2 hours and I think I am having a heart attack." HPI: Mr. Hammond is a 57-year-old African American male who presents to the Emergency Department with a chief complaint of chest pain that radiates down his left arm. He states that he started having pain several hours ago and says the pain "it feels like an elephant is sitting on my chest". He rates the pain as 8/10. Nothing has made the pain better or worse....

Case Study A 42-year-old man comes to clinic with chief complaint of pain, redness, and swelling of his right calf. He states that he had been working in his yard using a string trimmer when the trimmer slipped and cut his leg. He cleaned the wound with water from the garden hose and covered the wound with a large Band-Aid. Several days later, he developed fever to 100.6˚ F and chills and noticed that his leg was swollen and re

As an advanced practice nurse assisting physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders, it is important to not only understand the impact of disorders on the body, but also the impact of drug treatments on the body. The relationships between drugs and the body can be described by pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Pharmacokinetics describes what the body does to the drug through absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, whereas pharmacodynamics describes what the drug ...

Principles of Dental Hygiene 1 Final Exam Study Guide Use this guide to help you study for the final exam. Be sure to review all PowerPoints and .readings :Describe each mode of disease transmission and give an example of each in the dental settingDirect contact: direct exposure to body tissues/secretions with broken skinIndirect contact: injury w/ contaminated sharps & contact with contaminated surfacesDroplet infection: splatter/spray of microbes onto mucus membrane/broken skinAirborne par...

Which of the following is NOT a barrier to effective delegation?  A manager fears his employees will make a critical mistake.  A manager is concerned he will lose control by empowering his staff.  A manager decides to set a standard for quality rather than expect perfection.  A manager envies his staff members' abilities A manager helped one of his team leaders resolve an issue he was having with the new online performance appraisal system their company implemented. Whic...