Patient AO has a history of obesity and has recently gained 9 pounds. The patient has been diagnosed with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Drugs currently prescribed include the following:Atenolol 12.5 mg dailyDoxazosin 8 mg dailyHydralazine 10 mg qidSertraline 25 mg dailySimvastatin 80 mg dailyAll other factors were purposely omitted from the case study. As you read through your course materials, please feel free to add those factors that you’d like to further discuss that may affect the decisions that you will make for this patient. For example, if you’d like to discuss how the factor age will affect your patient, include in your paper that your patient is a 86 year old male. Or if you’d like to provide details of how gender plays a role in what treatment the patient will receive, include that your patient is a female. Also, please view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment to ensure you’ve included all necessary entities before submitting your assignment.Write 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 patients recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.Explain how you might improve the patients drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The College of Nursing Writing Template with Instructions provided at the Walden Writing Center offers an example of those required elements (available at https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general#s-lg-box-20293632). All papers submitted must use this formatting.
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