NURS 6521 Week 1 Discussion

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There is a two-way relationship between the drug and the body. The body affects the drug, and the drug affects the body. Pharmacokinetic is the process through which the drug is absorbed, distributed,... and eliminated from the body and pharmacodynamics refers to how the drug initiates its therapeutic or toxic effect, both at the cellular and systemic levels (Arcangelo et al., 2017). For this discussion, apatient’s pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics related to the drug warfarin willbe discussed.Ms. K.’s Health HistoryI took care of Ms. K. two weeks ago, a 91-year-old African American woman with vascular dementia, cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion of cerebral artery, arthropathy, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, atrial fibrillation with long-term use of anticoagulants, contracture of muscle, constipation and colostomy status, GERD without esophagitis, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. She [Show More]

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