Homework
Answer the 6 questions corresponding to primary care medication management. Provide responses and rationales. Support rationales with high level evidence.
i. What is the Beer Criteria and what is its' significance in prescribing?
ii. What is the safest method of calculating a medication dose for the pediatric patient?
iii. At what time period in a pregnancy can medication potentially have the greatest risk of causing malformations?
iv. If your patient sometimes forgets to take her medication, what type of medication half-life would be beneficial?
v. Your patient is on the highest daily dose of his medication and it is not giving him the desired effect. What type of metabolizer is he with this medication?
vi. What food item interacts with many medications and should be asked about its' ingestion, especially in the elderly?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.