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:
MEDICATION ASSIGNED IS
Iloperidone
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.
