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NURS 6521 Pharmacology Midterm Test Rated A+ 2025 • Question 1 A physician has ordered subcutaneous injections of morphine, a narcotic, every 4 hours as needed for pain for a motor vehicle accident victim. The nurse is aware that there is a high abuse potential for this drug and that it is categorized as a Selected Answer: C-II drug. • Question 2 1 out of 1 points Glargine (Lantus) is an insulin analog that essentially has no peak and is usually administered: Selected Answer: Once a...

Diabetes is characterized as a chronic disorder that affects how your body metabolizes sugars, or glucose (CDC, 2022). Insulin is released by the pancreas when blood glucose levels increase after eating. Insulin helps glucose enter the body’s cells to use as energy. Patients who are diagnosed with diabetes either do not make enough insulin or have insulin resistance and inappropriate insulin secretion. The types of diabetes will be explored in this discussion post.

The provided case study presents a 46-year-old female who is having right upper quadrant pain that started an hour after eating dinner with her family. The patient’s past medical history, current medications, and lab values have been reviewed. The purpose of this paper is to diagnose the patient, formulate an effective drug therapy plan based on the diagnosis, and explain why the recommended therapy plan was chosen.

There are many factors that affect the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs, including age, gender, genetics, ethnicity, and behavior factors. These factors can increase the likelihood of patients developing drug-induced disorders. Age is an important and common factor to consider when prescribing medications. The purpose of this assignment is to synthesize pharmacotherapy for cardiovascular diseases and to explore how aging influences pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and the patien...

I appreciate your insight on menopause and its treatment. There are many options for the treatment of menopause. While hormonal therapy (HT) has shown to be the most effective, somewomen choose not to use HT or have contraindications that prevent them from using HT. This patient has the potential to not be a candidate for HT due to her family history of breast cancer, which increases her risk of developing breast cancer. For the treatment of vasomotor symptoms, women with estrogen-sensitive canc...

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative brain disease that is the most common form of dementia (Alzheimer’s Association, n.d.). Dementia is characterized by memory loss and a decline in cognitive abilities. The effects can be severe enough that they interfere with the activities of daily living. This assignment will briefly discuss a patient’s case and my decisions regarding the patient’s care, whether my decisions were supported by evidence-based literature, what I hoped to ...

43-year-old Caucasian male presents at the office with a chief complaint of pain. Requires crutches to assist with ambulation. Injury to right hip region form a fall seven years ago. Reports that the family doctor sent him for psychiatric assessment because his primary care provider felt that the pain was “all in his head.” He also stated that his physician believes he is just making stuff up to get “narcotics to get high.”

Alzheimer disease (AD) is a slow developing nonreversible brain disorder that results in a permanent loss of neurons and neuronal synapses, causing neurocognitive disorder (Walter et al, 2014.) The loss of neurons is frequently in the areas of the brain responsible for function, memory, and cognition (Walter et al., 2014). In this assignment we will discuss the patient’s symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in the provided case study/decision tree related to Alzheimer disease.

Pediatric drug therapy presents difficult due to insufficient drug information available. It is not uncommon to see off-label drug use in pediatrics. Off-label drug use is using drugs for a different indication or age group than what it was approved for (Corny et al., 2015). Due to the physiological differences between adults and children, it is important to know the safety concerns related to off-label use with this population. In this assignment we will discuss circumstances in which children ...

Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) are responsible for conducting patient physical examinations, making diagnoses based on the patient's complaints, ordering diagnostic tests, prescribing medications, and offering educational counseling. Direct patient care is provided by APRNs, who are required to carefully assess patients' complaints to properly prescribe a pharmacological therapy that focuses on the condition's source rather than its symptoms. The first step towards assuming...