Assessing and Treating Adult and Geriatric Clients With Mood Disorders

Assessing and Treating Adult and Geriatric Clients With Mood Disorders

This is an assignment that focuses on the Assessing and treating adult and geriatric clients with mood disorders. The paper also focuses mostly on the advances that have grown in mental health.

Assessing and Treating Adult and Geriatric Clients With Mood Disorders

Advances in genetics and epigenetics have changed the traditional understanding of mood disorders, resulting in new evidence-based practices. In your role as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, it is essential for you to continually educate yourself on new findings and best practices in the field. For this Assignment, you consider best practices for assessing and treating adult and geriatric clients presenting with mood disorders.

Learning Objectives
Students will:
Firstly, assess client factors and history to develop personalized plans of antidepressant therapy for adult and geriatric clients
Secondly, analyze factors that influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in adult and geriatric clients requiring antidepressant therapy
Thirdly, evaluate efficacy of treatment plans
Lastly, analyze ethical and legal implications related to prescribing antidepressant therapy to adult and geriatric clients

To prepare for this Assignment:
·        Review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how to assess and treat adult and geriatric clients requiring antidepressant therapy.

The Assignment

Post a 4 pages assignment

Examine Case Study: An Elderly Hispanic Man With Major Depressive Disorder

Link to the case study: https://mym.cdn.laureate-media.com/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6630/03/mm/adult_geriatric_depression/index.html

Use at least 5 resources less than 10 years old to support your work.

You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication chosen to prescribe to this client. However, be sure to consider factors that might impact the client’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes. [Pick one medication selection from each encounter with your client (initial visit and 2 follow up visits)].

Assessing and Treating Adult and Geriatric Clients With Mood Disorders

At each decision point stop to complete the following:
o   Decision #1
§  Which decision did you select?
§  Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and also references to the Learning Resources.
§  Then, what were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Subsequently, support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
§  Additionally, explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

o   Decision #2
§  Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
§  What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and also references to the Learning Resources.
§  Additionally, explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

o   Decision #3
§  Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
§  Also, what were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
§  Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
·        Also include how ethical considerations might impact your treatment plan and communication with clients.