Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Patient’s Drug Therapy Plans and Recommendations
WOMEN’S AND MEN’S HEALTH, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, AND HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
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 to help 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.
Post a brief description of your patient’s health needs from the patient case study you assigned. Be specific. Then, explain the type of treatment regimen you would recommend for treating your patient, including the choice or pharmacotherapeutics you would recommend and explain why. Be sure to justify your response. Explain a patient education strategy you might recommend for assisting your patient with the management of their health needs. Be specific and provide examples.
Community-Acquired Pneumonia
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia
HH, a 68-year-old male, has community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and for the past three days, he has been admitted to a hospital. Within those three days of receiving empiric antibiotics, HH’s clinical status is improving since his oxygen requirement is decreasing. However, an extensive test is needed to identify CAP’s origin. The patient’s progressive macular hypomelanosis (PMH) is crucial in considering diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hypertension (HTN), and hyperlipidemia. In addition, HH is not tolerating the diet due to complaints of vomiting and nausea. Notably, vomiting and nausea are not likely to be CAP’s symptoms, but they might be a side effect of the medications that the patient is taking
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