Assessing and Treating Vulnerable Populations for Depressive Disorders
Description
For this assignment, you will develop a patient medication guide for treatment of depressive disorders in a vulnerable population (your choice for one vulnerable patient population to choose from: children, adolescents, older adults, dementia patients, pregnant women or one not listed of your choice!).
Be sure to use language appropriate for your audience (patient, caregiver, parent, etc.). You will include non- copyright images and/or information tables to make your patient medication guide interesting and appealing.
Limit your patient medication guide to 5 pages. You will create this guide as an assignment; therefore, a title page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page are required.
You must include a minimum of 3 scholarly supporting resources outside of your course provided resources.
In your patient guide, include discussion on the following:
- Depressive disorder causes and symptoms
- How depression is diagnosed for the vulnerable population ofyour choice, why is this population considered vulnerable
- Medication treatment options including risk vs benefits; side effects; FDA approvals for the vulnerable population of yourchoice
- Medication considerations of medication examples prescribed(see last bullet item)
- amitriptyline
- bupropion
- citalopram
- clomipramine
- desipramine
- desvenlafaxine
- doxepin
- duloxetine
- escitalopram
- fluoxetine
- fluvoxamine
- imipramine
- ketamine
- mirtazapine
- nortriptyline
- paroxetine
- selegiline
- sertraline
- trazodone
- venlafaxine
- vilazodone
- What is important to monitor in terms of labs, comorbidmedical issues with why important for monitoring
- Special Considerations (you must be specific, not general andaddress at least one for EACH category; you must demonstrate critical thinking beyond basics of HIPPA and informed consent!): legal considerations, ethical considerations, cultural considerations, social determinants of health
- Where to follow up in your local community for further information
- Provide 3 examples of how to write a proper prescription that you would provide to the patient or transmit to the pharmacy.
