Examine Case Study: Pakistani Woman with Delusional Thought Processes. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the client’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point stop to complete the following:

• Decision #1
  • Which decision did you select?
  • Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

• Decision #2
  • Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

• Decision #3
  • Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

Also include how ethical considerations might impact your treatment plan and communication with clients.

Solution:

As defined by Edwards et al. (2015), schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disease associated with emotion, cognition, psychosocial and occupational functionality impairments which usually result in cumulative loss of self-care and social functionality. Psychosis is a mental illness characterized by an impaired relationship with and disconnection from the reality which often occurs as a consequent of a psychiatric disease such as schizophrenia, healthy condition, or drug use (Edwards et al., 2015). Failure to timely control these disorders’ symptoms may render the affected individual unable to function properly in day to day activities. Taking this into consideration this paper seeks to assess and treat 34-year-old Pakistani female presenting symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia (Laureate Education, 2016j).

Patient Assessment

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