NURS 6521 Discussion: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics A friend calls and asks you to prescribe a medication for her. You have this autonomy, but you don’t have your friend’s medical history. You write the prescription anyway.
Having prescriptive authority doesn’t mean it should be taken for granted. The authorization of NPs to prescribe legend and controlled medications, devices, health care services, durable medical equipment and other equipment and supplies is essential to providing timely, cost-effective, quality health care and not for our friend or family benefit (“Nurse Practitioner”, 2020).
The fact that I carried through with writing the prescription anyway makes me hope and believe that there was consideration for the friend’s medical history, allergies and possible other prescription medication or over the counter interactions. With the patient being my friend being privy to information such as being aware of any possible pharmacodynamics issues such as gender, age and ethnicity to name a few. Pharmacodynamics describes what the drug does to the body (Briscoe, 2020). Ethnicity really needs to be considered
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because some medications don’t work for some people and a different drug may need to be given instead of the one requested (Walden University, n.d.).
Consideration of the friend’s renal, cardiac and other metabolic functions is necessary to prescribe the appropriate dose and frequency (Walden University, n.d.). Pharmacokinetics describes what the body does to the drug through absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (Briscoe, 2020). It would not be a friendly conversation if I prescribed a medication to make my friend happy and the medication made my friend sick instead. The blame and guilt that could possibly result can cause mental health issues and eventually lead to legal ramifications (Buppart, 2018).
References
Briscoe, C. (2020). The difference between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. BioAgilytix.
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