Assignment: PharmWeek 2 Assignment Case ScenarioPosted on: Monday, September 7, 2020 4:20:18 PM EDTClass,Please find below the case scenario for this week's assignement:Patient HM has a history of atrial fibrillation and a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Thepatient has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and ischemic heart disease. Drugs currently prescribed include the following:Warfarin 5 mg daily MWF and 2.5 mg daily T, TH, Sat, SunAspirin 81 mg dailyMetformin 1000 mg po bidGlyburide 10 mg bidAtenolol 100 mg po dailyMotrin 200 mg 1–3 tablets every 6 hours as needed for painPharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Disorders...heart disease remains the No. 1 killer in America; nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or smoke—some of the leading risk factors for heart disease…—Murphy et al., 2018Despite the high mortality rates associated with cardiovascular disorders, improved treatment options do exist that can help address those risk factors that afflict the majority of the population today. Photo Credit: Getty Images/Science Photo Library RFAs an advanced practice nurse, it is your responsibility to recommend appropriate treatment options for patients with cardiovascular disorders. To ensure the safety and effectiveness of drug therapy, advanced practice nurses must consider aspects that might influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes such as medical history, other drugs currently prescribed, and individual patient factors.Reference: Murphy, S. L., Xu, J., Kochanek, K. D., & Arias, E. (2018). Mortality in the United States, 2017. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db328.htmTo PrepareReview the Resources for this module and consider the impact of potential pharmacotherapeutics for cardiovascular disorders introduced in the media piece.Review the case study assigned by your Instructor for this Assignment.Select one the following factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior factors.Reflect on how the factor you selected might influence the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.Consider how changes in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy.Think about how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan based on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes. Reflect on whether you would modify the current drug treatment or provide an alternative treatment option for the patient.By Day 7 of Week 2Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.

Health care administration leaders face many challenges in ensuring that their health services organizations comply with standards set forth for practice. Further, they must also ensure that relative to their competitors, standards for quality, cost, and patient satisfaction remain consistent. Certain levels of benchmarking, whether internal (across units in an organization), competitive (against rivals), industrial (across the industry), and functional (against recognized leaders), help health care administration leaders establish workflows for top performance. For this Discussion, review the resources for this week regarding benchmarking. Then, think about your health services organization, or an organization with which you are familiar, and reflect on how this organization may use benchmarking for health care quality. Post a description of how your organization, or one with which you are familiar, may use benchmarks for effective health care delivery. Be specific and provide examples with fictitious data of some of the organization’s benchmarks. Categorize the benchmarks based on the taxonomy explored this week. Is the organization you selected benchmarking the right measures? Why, or why not?some resources Ross, T. K. (2014). Health care quality management: Tools and applications. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.Chapter 14, "Benchmarking and Implementation” (pp. 511–544)