Week 4 you are learning many concepts, the one we will be focusing on with this discussion board is appropriate prescribing of medication to the older adult. As Nurse Practitioner, we have the responsibility of deciding if a medication is warranted, which drug is the best to prescribe and how much/often. It is also our responsibility to educate on the side effects of the medication and when to seek medical attention if it should occur. Finally, it is our responsibility to determine the effectiveness of our treatment that was prescribed, for example, is the patient’s glucose stable on Glucophage 500 mg BID PO or do we need to titrate up or down.
Initial Post Instructions:
Please critically evaluate the subjective and objective information provided to you in the attached file below.
The first part of the discussion board is to identify all pertinent positive and, negative information and list missing information.
Then create a differential diagnosis list with at least 3 possibly actual diagnosis based on your findings.
Second part is to create a plan utilizing clinical practice guidelines for the priority diagnosis.
Be sure to utilize template, in-text citations and provide full reference citation at the end of the discussion.
Please use this document for your discussion response: see attached
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
All posts should be supported by a minimum of one scholarly resource, ideally within the last 5 years. Journals and websites must be cited appropriately. Citations and references must adhere to APA format.
