Delivery of a Clinical Drug Education Plan to a Patient & Brodie, Hamish, Sonya, Eric, Helen- Case Studies Nursing Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Task Senario

Group 1:
Brodie, an indigenous 10-year-old boy, lives with his parents and 4 siblings. He attends the local Primary School.

TASK 1A Group 1: 
Extension 1: Brodie has been commenced on carbamazepine 50 mg BD for his generalised seizures. 
Extension 2: Brodie uses Budesonide for his Asthma inhaler.
Extension 3: Brodie has several food allergies and his parents are seeking an immunologist. Meanwhile he is asked to carry EpiPen with him to school.
Extension 4: Brodie has now been commenced on Insulin Injections 8 Units bd 

Group 2:
Hamish is a 60-year-old male with Flu-like symptoms. He is diagnosed with COVID19 and is asked to  quarantine at home.

TASK 1A Group 2: 
Extension 1: Hamish normally uses Salbutamol nebuliser at home to improve his breathing from Asthma. 
Extension 2: Hamish is taking the oral ascorbic acid supplement as suggested by his local GP.
Extension 3: Hamish has been taking warfarin for Atrial Fibrillation for 10 years.
Extension 4: Hamish is commenced on Povidine-Iodine gargles for his sore throat.

Group 3:
Sonya is an 83-year-old female migrant from Greece. She is from a non-English speaking background and has limited understanding of English. She loves to cook and taste different foods and has a BMI of 42.

TASK 1A Group 3: 
Extension 1: Sonya is started on Candesartan 16mg OD for blood pressure.
Extension 2: After reviewing her high lipid levels, Sonya is now commenced on Simvastatin 40 mg OD.
Extension 3: Sonya complains of feeling uneasy with the daily news on COVID. She is concerned for contracting it herself. To help her sleep she has started taking Zolpidem 5mg, which was lying around in her medication cabinet.
Extension 4: Sonya takes pride in chewing her 60mg Isosorbide SR tablets that she is not afraid of taking her medications.

Group 4:
Eric is a 21-year-old is a University student. He has left his family a year ago and loves his newfound freedom. 

TASK 1A Group 4: 
Extension 1: Eric is diagnosed with Sexually Transmitted Disease and is commenced on Aciclovir 500 mg TID.
Extension 2: After a break-up with his girlfriend, Eric had become suicidal and was diagnosed with major depression. He has commenced on sertraline 50 mg OD by his GP.
Extension 3: Eric is diagnosed with Gout and is receiving Allopurinol 300 mg BD.
Extension 4: Eric is diagnosed with Hepatitis C is started with Sofosbuvir – Velpatasvir 100/400 (Epclusa) OD for 12 weeks.

Group 5:
Helen and Trevor are an elderly couple living in a retirement community. They consider themselves very healthy. They play golf two or three times a week and adhere to a low-fat and low-salt diet most of the time. They will have red wine on occasion with friends

TASK 1A: 
Extension 1: Helen has several episodes of severe headache. She has been diagnosed with vestibular migraine and is commenced on verapamil 80 mg BD.
Extension 2: Trevor is commenced with Prazosin 2mg BD for Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy 
Extension 3: Helen is diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and is commenced on sulfasalazine 1 gm QID.
Extension 4: Trevor had palpitations and is commenced on propranolol 40mg BD

Assessment Task 1 – Pharmacology Education Plan
Pharmacological therapeutics continue to play a pivotal role in the delivery and maintenance of health and
wellbeing in contemporary society. Effective healthcare requires the process of optimising the Quality 
Use

of Medicines (QUM). This assignment helps to ensure safe medication administration by understanding safe medication pharmaceutical therapeutics by following the Australian Standards, in particular, Medication Safety Standard and Partnering with Consumers Standards in the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards as well as Aged Care Quality Standards. Registered nurses have an important role to play in the healthcare team to ensure the safe and reliable compliance of drugs. To do this, they must not only have a comprehensive knowledge of the actions and effects of pharmacological agents being prescribed and administered to patients by other health professionals, but they also need to aware of potential problems that may arise in relation to a patient’s drug regime. They, therefore, become an integral conduit between other health professionals and the patient by providing multifaceted advice and feedback to the entire healthcare team.

Purpose:
The purpose of this learning task is to provide students with an opportunity to apply their developing Clinical Decision-Making skills to an allocated patient scenario. The task is designed to allow you to focus upon all therapeutic aspects relating to that patients care. It will therefore encourage the development of knowledge and skills of fundamental pharmacological principles and aspects of patient care in order to educate and inform a professional audience and deliver pertinent patient education.

Part A: Individual Video Presentation

Part 1A will be an individual assessment task. You are required to video record yourself providing relevant education to this patient about his/her specific medication regime in order to provide quality patient  care,
remembering to consider the patient’s levels of health literacy. Although this is an individual assignment, you will need to ensure you have been allocated into a group (with a max of 4 students in each group) within Moodle. Each group will have four drugs allocated, out of which you will need to choose ONE drug each and prevent overlap of drugs within the group. As an individual, you will be required to consider the patient as a whole, in preparation for an educative interview related to the chosen drug. This video recording should not be more than 5 minutes, hence it is important to prioritise pertinent and essential information to ensure the medication regime is understood and followed by the patient. Video clips longer than 5 mins and 30 secs will not be considered and you will only receive marks for the maximum allocated time. Each student will need to submit the reference list of 8 appropriate references along with the video clip.

You will need to submit your video recording, through Kaltura (please see the instructions on Moodle to use Kaltura), and reference list to Moodle (Assessment Task 1A) by the set due date/time

Appendix A: Marking Guide for Assessment Task 1A -Individual Video Presentation
Delivery of a Clinical Drug Education Plan to a Patient: Educating a patient upon the introduction of a new drug into their medication regime