Walden NURS6630N Week 7 Assignment Latest 2024

NURS6630N Approaches to Treatment 

Week 7 Assignment

DISCUSSION/ASSIGNMENT: PATIENT MEDICATION GUIDE

This week, you will create a Medication Study Guide to share with your peers. This guide is intended to be a useful learning tool for you to use as you prepare for your clinical courses.

You will be assigned one of the following medications to create your guide:

Chlorpromazine Fluphenazine Haloperidol Loxapine Perphenazine

Aripiprazole Asenapine Clozapine Iloperidone Olanzapine

Paliperidone  Quetiapine  Risperidone  Ziprasidone  Lurasidone  Brexpiprazole

Cariprazine  Lumateperone  Benztropine  Propranolol  Deutetrabenazine  Valbenazine

 RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCES

TO PREPARE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT:

Identify your assigned psychotropic medication agent.

Review this week’s Learning Resources, including the medication resources indicated for this week.

Reflect on the psychopharmacologic treatments you might recommend for the assessment and treatment of vulnerable patient populations requiring antidepressant therapy.

THE ASSIGNMENT

Create a 3- to 4-page (excluding visual elements) Medication Study Guide for your assigned psychotropic medication agents that may be utilized by you and colleagues for study. Your medication guide should be in the form of an outline and should include a title page, citations, and references. You should incorporate visual elements, such as concept maps, charts, diagrams, images, color coding, mnemonics, and/or flashcards. Be creative!

Note: Your Medication Study Guide should not be in the format of an APA paper.

Also Note: Your guide should be informed by the FDA-Approved and Evidenced-Based, Clinical Practice Guidelines Research.

Areas of importance that you should address—but are not limited to—include:

Title page

Description of the psychopharmacological medication agent, including brand and generic names, as well as appropriate FDA indication uses

Any supporting, valid, and reliable research for non-FDA uses

Drug classification

The medication mechanism of action

The medication pharmacokinetics

The medication pharmacodynamics

Appropriate dosing, administration route, and any considerations for dosing alterations

Considerations of use and dosing in specific specialty populations, such as children, adolescents, elderly, pregnant people, those exhibiting suicidal behaviors, etc.

Definition of half-life, why half-life is important, and the half-life for your assigned medication

Side effects/adverse reactions potential

Discuss clinical concerns with EPS and Tardive Dyskinesia

Note: Be sure to include screening tools that would be utilized.

Contraindications for use including significant drug to drug interactions

Overdose considerations

Diagnostics and labs monitoring comorbidities considerations

Legal, ethical, and social considerations

Pertinent patient education considerations

References page

Support your rationale with a minimum of three (3) academic resources.

Note: While you may use the course text to support your rationale, it will not count toward the resource requirement. You should be utilizing primary and secondary literature.

BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 7

You will need to submit your Assignment to two places:

Week 7 Medication Guide Discussion forum (linked at the button below) as an attachment

Week 7 Medication Guide Assignment submission link

Although no responses are required in the Discussion forum, collegial Discussion is welcome. You are encouraged to utilize your peers’ submitted guides on their assigned medication for study.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Before submitting your final assignment, you can check your draft for authenticity. To check your draft, access the Turnitin Drafts from the Start Here area.

To submit your completed assignment, save your Assignment as WK7Assgn_LastName_Firstinitial

Then, click on Start Assignment near the top of the page.

Next, click on Upload File and select Submit Assignment for review.