Case Study “\ufffd Nervous System\tMrs. H is a 45-year-old woman recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and is going to begin amantadine 50 mg po bid and Sinemet\u2122CR 1 tab bid. She is already being treated for gastric ulcers with Nexium\u2122\u00a040 mg qd.\tThe physician is trying to explain the need for long-term medication therapy that may also need to be adjusted as her disease progresses.\tAnswer the following questions:\t1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are the pharmacokinetics (precautions, adverse effects, interactions, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion)\u00a0and pharmacodynamics of each medication?\t2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How will the side effects of each medication listed influence your physical assessment of the patient?\t3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Describe nursing interventions to enhance the therapeutic effects and decrease adverse effects of the drugs. Indicate at least two safety issues, per medication, pertinent to the patient’s diagnosis. Assume that you have adhered to the five rights of medication administration. Include your rationale for your decision.\t4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What educational information should you provide to the patient and her family about nervous system drugs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Case Study “\ufffd Nervous System Mrs. H is a 45-year-old woman recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and is going to begin amantadine 50 mg po bid and Sinemet\u2122CR 1 tab bid. She is already being treated for gastric ulcers with Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}