Assessing and Treating Vulnerable Populations for Depressive Disorders
The Assignment: 5 pages
For this assignment, you will develop a patient medication guide for treatment of depressive disorders in a vulnerable population . Be sure to use language appropriate for your audience .
You will include non-copyright images and/or information tables to make your patient medication guide interesting and appealing. Limit your patient medication guide to 5 pages.
You will create this guide as an assignment; therefore, a title page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page are required.
You must include a minimum of 3 scholarly supporting resources outside of your course provided resources. In your patient guide, include discussion on the following: Depressive disorder causes and symptoms
How depression is diagnosed for the vulnerable population of your choice, why is this population considered vulnerable Medication treatment options including risk vs benefits; side effects; FDA approvals for the vulnerable population of your choice Medication considerations of medication examples prescribed
What is important to monitor in terms of labs, comorbid medical issues with why important for monitoring
Special Considerations : legal considerations, ethical considerations, cultural considerations, social determinants of health
Where to follow up in your local community for further information
Provide 3 examples of how to write a proper prescription that you would provide to the patient or transmit to the pharmacy.
