COURSE:

NURS-6630N: Approaches to Treatment


Special Considerations for Patient Population Cases:

 The Assignment (4–5 pages)

Construct a paper concerning your assigned vulnerable population patient case. In your paper include the following:

 

Solution

Special Considerations for Patient Populations

            The case scenario selected is patient 3 a 33-year-old female patient who is six weeks postpartum and diagnosed with major depressive disorder, with postpartum onset.  The patient presented to the clinic with complaints of depressed mood, difficulty with sleep sadness, being emotional, and low interest in her hobby or bonding with the infant. Based on this, this paper provides a discussion on prescribing medication for a breastfeeding client and key considerations.

Appropriate Medication to Prescribe and Rationale for selection

The medication list for the above patient includes lithium, paroxetine, and sertraline.  From these medications, the most appropriate medication to prescribe is sertraline.  The rationale for selecting this medication is that it is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) which is FDA-approved for treating MDD.  A number of studies have reported that sertraline is effective in treating postpartum depression (Frieder et al., 2019).  The other rationale for selecting this medication is because of its………………………………………..$10

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