WGU D116 Prep for Advanced Pharm
#3 Unit 5
The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN)
accountable for organising and maintaining the requirements for ambulatory care nursing
exercise
What is a care transition
A set of actions designed to make certain care coordination and continuity as patients switch
among specific places or one of a kind tiers of care in the identical vicinity
What is polypharmacy
A character takes more than one medicines
What is referred to as the prescribing cascade
The procedure wherein drug facet results are misdiagnosed as symptoms of any other hassle,
ensuing in similarly prescriptions
Mrs. T has type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular sickness, and a records effective for MI. The
pharmacy calls you to inform you of a clear example of polypharmacy.
What is an example of polypharmacy
The patient is taking multiple medications from more than one companies and likely needs to
stop a number of them. The pharmacy and pharmacist are appropriate resources to identify
duplications in remedy and overprescribing from a couple of providers
An superior practice registered nurse (APRN) is seeing a 36-year-vintage woman for the first
time who has a records of allergies and high blood pressure and is presently on an albuterol
inhaler and an ACE inhibitor (captopril). At the visit, the female has a high quality being
pregnant take a look at.
Which advice should the APRN make for this patient
Stop captopril and replace it with another antihypertensive medicine. Angiotensin converting
enzyme (ACE) inhibitors can motive serious fetal damage, in particular for the duration of the
second one and third trimesters of pregnancy. They should not accept to pregnant women
#3 Unit 5
The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN)
accountable for organising and maintaining the requirements for ambulatory care nursing
exercise
What is a care transition
A set of actions designed to make certain care coordination and continuity as patients switch
among specific places or one of a kind tiers of care in the identical vicinity
What is polypharmacy
A character takes more than one medicines
What is referred to as the prescribing cascade
The procedure wherein drug facet results are misdiagnosed as symptoms of any other hassle,
ensuing in similarly prescriptions
Mrs. T has type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular sickness, and a records effective for MI. The
pharmacy calls you to inform you of a clear example of polypharmacy.
What is an example of polypharmacy
The patient is taking multiple medications from more than one companies and likely needs to
stop a number of them. The pharmacy and pharmacist are appropriate resources to identify
duplications in remedy and overprescribing from a couple of providers
An superior practice registered nurse (APRN) is seeing a 36-year-vintage woman for the first
time who has a records of allergies and high blood pressure and is presently on an albuterol
inhaler and an ACE inhibitor (captopril). At the visit, the female has a high quality being
pregnant take a look at.
Which advice should the APRN make for this patient
Stop captopril and replace it with another antihypertensive medicine. Angiotensin converting
enzyme (ACE) inhibitors can motive serious fetal damage, in particular for the duration of the
second one and third trimesters of pregnancy. They should not accept to pregnant women
