Student’s Response to Peers

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Student’s Response to Peers

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days in one of the following ways:

  • If your colleagues’ posts influenced your understanding of these concepts, be sure to share how and why. Include additional insights you gained.
  • If you think your colleagues might have misunderstood these concepts, offer your alternative perspective and be sure to provide an explanation for them. Include resources to support your perspective.

STUDENT SA (1 Page response 3 references)

  • List three questions you might ask the patient if she were in your office. Provide a rationale for why you might ask these questions.
  1. What is your typical day like?
  2. What is your bedtime routine?
  3. How do you cope with sleeplessness?
  • Identify people in the patient’s life you would need to speak to or get feedback from to further assess the patient’s situation. Include specific questions you might ask these people and why.
  1. Children or next of kin
  • Explain what, if any, physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate for the patient and how the results would be used.
  • List a differential diagnosis for the patient. Identify the one that you think is most likely and explain why.
  • List two pharmacologic agents and their dosing that would be appropriate for the patient’s antidepressant therapy based on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
  • From a mechanism of action perspective, provide a rationale for why you might choose one agent over the other.
  • For the drug therapy you select, identify any contraindications to use or alterations in dosing that may need to be considered based on the client’s ethnicity. Discuss why the contraindication/alteration you identify exists. That is, what would be problematic with the use of this drug in individuals of other ethnicities?
  • Include any “check points” (i.e., follow-up data at Week 4, 8, 12, etc.), and indicate any therapeutic changes that you might make based on possible outcomes that may happen given your treatment options chosen.

STUDENT 2, DG (1 Page response 3 references)

This 75-year-old female patient complains of insomnia and worsening depression since her husband of 41 years passed away. One piece of information missing is her race.