Pharmacology case studies for nurse prescribers

Pharmacology case studies for nurse prescribers

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Pharmacology case studies for nurse prescribers

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For the medication groups identified above, what would be the issues and side effects to consider with each medication choice?

In Jane’s case, what would be the advantage of using an immediate-release form of morphine rather than a modified-release form such as MST®?

Identify patients for whom prescription of oral morphine should be avoided or used with caution.

If Jane is found to have a degree of renal impairment, what alternative actions and medications would you consider?

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Palliative care summary case studies

Suggest four or five different types of diagnosis for which a patient may receive palliative care. You should have identified a range of diagnoses:

Some medications may be prescribed off licence or by unlicensed routes in palliative care. Can you think of reasons why this might happen and identify any examples of this kind of medication?

What advice does the NMC give non-medical prescribers about the prescribing of unlicensed medicines?

Having reviewed the gate control theory, can you speculate as to which type of afferent nerve fibres are stimulated by transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) to reduce pain transmission?

A beta fibres.

Review the therapeutic and adverse effects of opioids in one of the pharmacology texts listed in the further reading list on p. 333, then complete Table 18.2 below by:

• Inserting the correct words in the blank spaces in columns 1 and 2 (Hint: Pain relief and sedation, respiratory depression, cough suppression, nausea and vomiting, miosis, hypotension and bradycardia)
• Identifying the effects that are therapeutic and those that are

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Complete Table 18.3 below by:

• Stating the effects on the patient of activating mu receptors outside the central nervous (Hint: urine retention, bronchospasm, flushing and hypotension, constipation)
• Identifying the effects that are therapeutic and those that are
  

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