Preparing the Assignment

• Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
• There are three patient cases presented in this assignment.  You are to use the following to answer the questions.
• When you click on the resource links, the links will open in a new window so you will be able to navigate between the resources and the quiz.
  • American Diabetes Association. (2020). Figure 9.1 [Graph]. Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2020 Abridged for Primary Care Providers. https://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/1/10 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
  • Rosenthal, L., Burchum, J. (2021). Lehne’s pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants (2nd ed.). Elsevier.
• You will be presented with three patient cases and then a series of questions.  Each question will tell you which case it is referring to.
• Cite any sources you use to answer the questions.
• There are 13 questions.  The first question is worth 5 points.  The next 12 questions are worth 10 points each.
• There is a 4 hour time limit for this assignment. This assignment needs to be completed in one sitting.  You are unable to save your work and come back to finish it later.
• Faculty will grade your assignment and post grades after you submit.  You will not receive an accurate grade upon completion.
• The feedback you receive is broad and general to protect the academic integrity of this assignment as long as possible.  However, it is specific enough to provide you with the source of the correct answer as well as some information to try to let you know whether you answered correctly or not.

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Solution:

Question 2

Use the John Jones case study to answer the following question.

Using diagnostic criteria for diabetes, what is John’s diabetic status?  What treatment plan should be introduced at this time?

He has diabetes and requires pharmacological intervention. Values that supports his diabtes

DM Diagnostic Criteria on pg 398 reviews the four criteria to diagnose DM which is the precursor to pharmacological intervention. These criteria include: 
• Fasting plasma glucose ≥126 mg/dLa Or  
• Random plasma glucose ≥ 200 mg/dL plus symptoms of diabetes Or  
• Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT): 2-h plasma glucose ≥200 mg/dLc Or  
• Hemoglobin A1c 6.5% or higher;

References

Rosenthal, L., & Burchum, J. (2021). Lehne’s pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice nurses and physician assistants (2nd ed.). Elsevier Health Sciences.

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