What type of drug should you prescribe based on your patient’s diagnosis?How much of the drug should the patient receive?How often should the drug be administered?

Assignment 2: Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs

What type of drug should you prescribe based on your patient’s diagnosis? How much of the drug should the patient receive? How often should the drug be administered? When should the drug not be prescribed? Are there individual patient factors that could create complications when taking the drug? Should you be prescribing drugs to this patient? How might different state regulations affect the prescribing of this drug to this patient?
These are some of the questions you might consider when selecting a treatment plan for a patient.

Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber,pharmacist,patient,and patient’s family.

Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs

To Prepare

Review the Resources for this module and consider the legal and ethical implications of prescribing prescription drugs, disclosure, and nondisclosure.
Review the scenario assigned by your Instructor for this Assignment.
Search specific laws and standards for prescribing prescription drugs and for addressing medication errors for your state or region,and reflect on these as you review the scenario assigned by your

Instructor.
Consider the ethical and legal implications of the scenario for all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and patient’s family.
Think about two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your ethically and legally responsible decision-making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose any medication errors.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber,pharmacist,patient,and patient’s family.

Describe strategies to address disclosure and nondisclosure as identified in the scenario you selected. Be sure to reference laws specific to your state.

Explain two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your decision making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose your error. Be sure to justify your explanation.

Explain the process of writing prescriptions, including strategies to minimize medication errors.

Determine appropriate LDL and non-HDL goals and thresholds based on individual risk factors.

Dyslipidemia Case

Learning Objectives

After completing this case study, the reader should be able to:

Identify patients who require treatment for dyslipidemia.

Stratify individual patients for risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke.

Determine appropriate LDL and non-HDL goals and thresholds based on individual risk factors.

Recommend a cholesterol management strategy that includes therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC), drug therapy, patient education, and monitoring parameters.