Discussions on Prescriptions
Beer criteria equate to guidelines and parameters that guide the healthcare professionals in a bid to help them improve and uphold the standards required to achieve safe medical prescriptions for older adults (Cadogan, Ryan, & Hughes, 2016). In prescription, beer criteria is essential in alleviating unnecessary prescriptions. Such interventions aided greatly through beer criteria reduces extreme drug reactions, reduces the problems related to polypharmacy, drug interactions, and other unnecessary medications.
In dealing with pediatric patients, the safest method of calculating the medical dose is through the weight-based method. In this regard, the child’s weight is measured against the milligram of the dosage required (Sutherland et al., 2018). The simplicity of the calculations also makes it relatively simple for the correct dosage to be attainable. Thus, it incumbent upon the nurse to take into account the strength of the medication and sensitize the parents equally on the same.
During the first trimester of pregnancy that spans from the last day of menstruation to approximately the 14th week of pregnancy, medications and severe exposers could expose the unborn to extreme congenital disabilities. The birth defects during this period emanate from the fact that significant body developments take place during this period in the fetus (Cadogan, Ryan, & Hughes, 2016). Thus any medication should be devoid of impacts that could easily deform the fetus.
When a patient often forgets taking her medication, a long half-life medication would be beneficial. A long half-life drug takes a relatively more extended period to metabolize and thus fully. The patient would not rely on the frequent use of the medications to ease the medical conditions (Cadogan, Ryan, & Hughes, 2016). Long half-life drugs would also alleviate the chances of the patient abusing the drugs through overdosing to cover up for the times he/she might forget.
When patients have the highest daily dose of their medications and no side effects is realized, the patient could potentially belong to the group of the rapid or the ultra-rapid metabolizers (Sutherland et al., 2018). Among these patients, their enzymes are quite active and often breaks down drugs without properly allowing their effects to create an impact on the body. Thus, these individuals may require a higher dose to ensure that the drug works properly.
Though there are multiple food-drug interactions, the grapevine juice reacts with many food items as it remains a significant source of calcium antagonism, interacts with a statin, and could pose a high risk of orthostatic hypotension (Sutherland et al., 2018). In adults, its ingestion is questionable as more massive consumption affects various essential aspects of human digestion at an advanced stage.