Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan

Creating an oral presentation on drug therapy across the lifespan will aid you in addressing course objective #2 – Contrast the principles of pharmacotherapeutics across the lifespan including the effects of race, gender and ethnicity.

Pharmacotherapeutics is the clinical purpose or indication for giving a drug to prevent, to treat, and to alter normal functions (such as preventing pregnancy). Pharmacokinetics is the effect of the body on the drug through four phases: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. As Registered Nurses (RNs) practicing in the healthcare environment, you understand indications for medication administration, the causes and consequences a variability may have on the response to the drug in varying stages of life. This understanding is the foundation of safe medication administration. With evidence for support, this assignment encourages you to become the expert on the reason a drug is administered, cause(s) and consequences of variability a drug response has within a lifespan.

Oral Presentation on Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan submission requirements:
1. Create an Oral PowerPoint presentation that is a slide show
2. APA 7th ed. formatted title slide
3. Identify and introduce the lifespan you will be focusing on, to include why this lifespan could be impacted by the variability (for example in neonates, the liver is immature).
4. Identify and explain the variability you will be focusing on
5. Identify and explain a medication you will focus on (pharmacotherapeutics)
6.Discuss pharmacokinetics as it relates to your selected lifespan. For example, how is an older adult with hypertension affected by the variability you selected, when taking calcium channel blockers?
7. Include the consequences of the variability’s effect on the lifespan- for example, if there is impaired excretion, will there be drug accumulation?
8. Present an action you, as a RN, would take, or suggest taking, to address the consequences of the variability
9. Identify at least two education points to include for this patient population related to the medication and the identified variability
10. Identify lab values that would need to be monitored in your identified lifespan, to include reference range used at your organization
11. Briefly summarize the medication, the lifespan and the variability
12. Include at least 2 scholarly studies for support during the presentation – reference slide, APA 7th ed formatted
13. Presentation should be 12 – 16 slides long
14. Attach a transcript of your presentation, use the closed caption tool, or ensure your slides have notes discussing each slide

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