(Answered) NURS 6521 Week 10 Discussion: Womens and Mens Health, Infectious Disease, and Hematologic Disorders

COURSE  

NURS 6521 Advanced Pharmacology

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 helping address your patient’s 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 patient’s 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

  1. Review the Resources for this module and reflect on the different health needs and body systems presented.
  2. Your Instructor will assign you a complex case study to focus on for this Discussion.
  3. 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.

Post: You will respond to your colleagues’ posts in Week 10.

  1. Select a complex case study to focus on for this discussion (below)
  1. 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

ANSWER  

HH has COPD, which is a progressive and persistent chronic disease restricting his airflow. COPD and pneumonia are often comorbid (Scholl, 2018). Pneumonia is the main contributor to hospitalization for acute exacerbation of COPD and is correlated with unfortunate outcomes (Shin, 2019). Inpatient death in COPD complicated by community-acquired pneumonia is estimated at 12.2% (Yang, 2017).

After the 3rd day of treatment with antibiotics, HH’s pulse ox improved slightly from 90 to 93. The goal is usually 96% for most patients. Combining treatment for COPD may improve his outcome. ………..please click the icon below to purchase full answer at $10