You  are a nurse at an outpatient clinic and are presented with a  68-year-old female client.  She is experiencing the following symptoms:  decreased appetite, disturbed sleep pattern, fatigue, difficulty  concentrating, disordered thought process, anhedonia, guilt, and low  self-esteem. The doctor diagnoses the client with major depressive  disorder.  Answer the following questions:

• What medication do you think is likely to be prescribed for this client and why? 
• What are some important teachings you would give this client when administering the first dose? 
• When  following up with the client 2 months later.  What are some changes you  may expect to see with the client? If the client is not displaying the  expected outcomes, what are some possible alternatives for the client? 

Please use and provide the scholarly article used to answer the questions

Please read my post followed by my professor’s response and answer her question regarding UTI. Should you have any questions please dont hesitate to ask. Thanks!

Also, this has to be a minimum of one paragraph, referenced with two citations less than 5 Years old, and no plagiarism. 

Weekly Post: The human body is prone to many diseases and infections. Human beings should care for their body to avoid the acquisition of diseases and infections. For instance the urinary tract infection which mainly occur in females and affect the bladder and the urethra. The infection is majorly caused by a bacteria known as Escherichia coli. The bacteria is majorly found in the gastrointestinal tract. The treatment to the urinary tract infection is by the use of antibiotics (Foxman, 2013).

Describe the advantage and disadvantage of one drug to treat urinary tract infections.

The antibiotics that treat the urinary tract infections have many advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are that, they fight infections and preserve lives. They also cure, preserve lives and don’t affect the normal body cells. The antibiotics also have many disadvantages in that they have side effects and may make the body to function abnormally (Nicolle, 2012). 

The antibiotics also kill healthy bacteria that are useful to the body and hence make the body weak. The antibodies help and also harm the body so they are not fully safe for human consumption.

Conclusion

In treatment of infection, the drugs provided should be taken according to the doctor’s prescription to avoid any inconveniences. Misuse of this drugs may cause great damage and may lead to death. The drugs should be used correctly to enable quick recovery.

References

Foxman, B. (2013). Urinary tract infection. In Women and Health (Second Edition) (pp. 553-564).

Nicolle, L. E. (2012). Urinary tract infections. Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine, 2359-2364.

Professors response:  Please give me an example of a drug you would use for UTI and why would you choose it ?

Thanks,

Ethics and Globalization of Health Care, and Electronic Medical Records Versus Personal Health Records“ Please respond to the following:

From the e-Activity, examine the primary reasons why medical tourism is becoming popular among Americans, and determine whether or not the health care industry should encourage this consumer behavior. Give at least two (2) specific examples associated with such patient medical consumerism behaviors.

Compare and contrast electronic medical records with personal health records. Justify the ethical responsibility of keeping patients medical and personal health records confidential. Provide a rationale for your response.

Based on your research and knowledge of healthcare develop a 1 page memo to your staff discussing how the department will promote accountability, reliability and integrity more effectively. Provide a chart or graph on trending of accountability over the last 5- 10 years. This assignment can relate to your chosen topic or you can choose to look at other topics, the most important concept is to understand how to promote accountability, reliability, and integrity.

Note: Students you can select information from an organization around improvements to chart/graph trending based on improvements. See organizations results from Hospital consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems (HCAHPS), Consumer assessment of healthcare providers (CAHPS), NCQA, URAC, etc.

Application: Part 1 – Developing an Advocacy Campai

To prepare:

• Select a population health issue of interest to you and identify the population affected by the issue.
• Locate two scholarly articles, each of which provides a description of an effective health advocacy campaign that addresses your issue. The articles need to focus on two different advocacy campaigns.
• Analyze the attributes of the two campaigns to determine what made them effective.
• Reflect on a policy you could propose or suggest a change to a current policy to improve the health of the population you selected.
• Consider how you could develop an advocacy campaign, applying the attributes identified in similar, effective campaigns.

To complete:

For the Part 1 application (approximately 3–4 pages of content with a title page and references in APA format) address the following:

• Describe your selected population health issue and the population affected by this issue.
• Summarize the two advocacy campaigns you researched in this area.
• Explain the attributes that made those campaigns effective.
• Begin to develop a plan for a health advocacy campaign that seeks to create a new policy or change an existing policy with regard to the issue and population you selected. Be sure to include in your plan:

A description of the public health issue and proposed policy solution

• Specific objectives for the policy you want to be implemented
• Begin to substantiate of your proposed campaign by data and evidence.
• Be sure to paste the rubric at the end of your paper.

My selected health issue – Mental Health/Substance Abuse 

My policy is something to erase the stigma of having a mental health disorder or substance use disorder, so the general population will seek help without fear of judgement