NURS 6501N Advanced Pharmacology Week 9 Discussion

Advanced pharmacology: Discussion Week 9 Brief description of your patient’s health needs from the patient case study you assigned. Be specific. Patient M presents with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and remains hospitalized for treatment. The patient is currently being treated on multiple antibiotics which have been reported to keep the patient comfortable and improve the general clinical status. The patient will need to continue the antibiotics for continued treatment of the pneumonia infection. CAP is a common infection in the elderly, (Perry, 2022). The aim should be to stabilize the patient and reduce the length of hospital stay. My focus would be to reduce the stress on the patient’s immune response which could be affected by the body's inflammatory response due to unmanaged body stressors. He will need to have his fever managed, nausea, and vomiting, as well as his COPD. These symptoms when managed could reduce the worsening of the patient’s coping with his respiratory condition affected by pneumonia. COPD is known to increase the risk of pneumonia, and in my patient’s case, the gram-positive bacilli pathogen – Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria has been confirmed., paying attention to oxygen saturation and breathing ability would also be a high priority, (Rizzo, 2022). Pneumonia infection affects the body beyond the airways in the alveoli into supporting lung tissue. To prevent further pulmonary damage, decreasing the fluid in the lungs will in turn stabilize the patient. Chronic irritation causes permanent damage which increases the patient’s risk of acquiring pneumonia due to impaired pulmonary function.