Genetic sequencing

In recent years, genetic sequencing has enabled healthcare practitioners to identify the best course of treatment for patients. This is especially the case for cancer patients and those with mental health conditions. Explain why this is the case and how genetics helps to identify the best treatment options.

Treatment

1.In your own words, define treatment. What type of information is needed in order to identify the best treatment for a disease/disorder?

2.Select a disease/disorder that we covered in this module: I choose, respiratory distress syndrome. What is/are the common treatment(s) for this disease/disorder? Include in your answer all types of treatment from medicine, therapies, interventions, behaviors, or other impactful treatments.

3.What are some common side effects, adverse effects, contraindications, or complications associated with these treatments (if any)? Why is it important to understand these potential side effects and complications?

Federal drug regulation

Federal Drug Regulations Contains unread posts, read the scenario below and answer, using complete sentences, the three questions. Barbara, a certified medical assistant, noted that her aunt, who suffered from chronic pain from a neck injury, carried two bottles of Percodan in her purse. “Two different doctors wrote prescriptions for me”, Barbara’s aunt confided, “but neither knows about the other. That’s the only way I can get enough medication to control my pain.”

1. If you were Barbara, would you report your aunt’s deception to the physicians named on her prescriptions?

2. What ethical advice would you give your aunt regarding Federal Drug Regulations?

3. How can physicians guard against such abuse by patients?

Telehealth

Telehealth has emerged as an enhancement to healthcare giving clients greater access to care providers than ever before. It especially benefits people living in remote areas who do not have easy access to healthcare facilities and to specialists. It is beneficial for people with chronic diseases that require frequent monitoring to help keep their conditions under control and prevent hospitalizations. For this assignment, you will select a condition and design a brochure educating a potential client on types of services telehealth offers. Please read your textbook and view the video before you develop your brochure. Feel free to use any other resources to help you understand what type of services are available using this technology. Attached are two example brochures, one created using Microsoft Publisher and the other using Microsoft Word.

  1. Design a brochure detailing how your company uses telehealth services to assist patients in managing the selected condition
    1. Create a tri-fold brochure, choose New page in Word or Publisher, search for a tri-fold template using the online template search bar, select and download a template to use for this assignment. Use the content format provided on the example brochures
    2. Be creative – you can change colors and fonts of provided templates – just avoid too many colors or differing fonts that make the brochure difficult to read
    3. Include both information and images on the brochure (see example brochures provided)
  2. Submit a minimum of two references (APA formatted) you utilized for your brochure content on a Word document and upload it along with the brochure

Influx of technology

1.Read Chapter 16 in your textbook and discuss (in at least 150 words) how the influx of technology may affect ethical and confidentiality issues in the health care environment.

2.Briefly describe (in at least 150 words) an instance in your practice when you felt a patient’s confidentiality was compromised. How was the situation handled? What does the literature say about this particular type of situation and how it should be handled?

The Components of a Cell

Initial Post: Identify all the components of a cell. Describe the function of each of these components.

Describe cellular metabolism membrane transport and cellular reproduction
Describe the aging process. Identify the pathophysiologic process for 3 underlying principles of aging. Example: oxidative process.

Afebrile patient

The school registered nurse sees an 8-year-old male coming into the nursing office by his Phys Ed teaching with complaints of profuse sweating and confusion. The patient is currently afebrile.

1.What condition would most likely be expected? Which actions are contraindicated?

2.How should the nurse provide the glucose and why? When should the Registered nurse re-check the blood glucose?

Furosemide and pimobendan

When given concurrently, which drug, furosemide or pimobendan are you more likely to have a higher serum concentration that is if given alone? Why?

The Pathophysiology of Right and Left Sided Heart Failure

Briefly discuss the pathophysiology of Right and Left Sided Heart Failure?

Eye doses

What are the two major challenges for delivering large eye doses of a drug directly to the eye based on its anatomy and physiology? What (if anything) can be done as a formulator to overcome these challenges? Why is it important that an ophthalmic formulation is isotonic with the fluids in the eye? Why is maintaining a specific pH of the formulation important?