Please pick from one of the following medications that interests you to create your guide: 

Please pick from one of the following medications that interests you to create your guide: 

Chlorpromazine

Fluphenazine

Haloperidol

Loxapine

Perphenazine

Aripiprazole

Asenapine

Clozapine

Iloperidone

Olanzapine

Paliperidone

Quetiapine

Risperidone

Ziprasidone

Lurasidone

Brexpiprazole

Cariprazine

Lumateperone

Benztropine

Propranolol

Deutetrabenazine

Valbenazine

 

Create a 3- to 4-page (excluding visual elements) Medication Study Guide for your assigned psychotropic medication agents that may be utilized by you and colleagues for study. Your medication guide should be in the form of an outline and should include a title page, citations, and references. You should incorporate visual elements, such as concept maps, charts, diagrams, images, color coding, mnemonics, and/or flashcards. Be creative!

Note: Your Medication Study Guide should 
not be in the format of an APA paper.

Also Note: Your guide should be informed by the 
FDA-Approved and Evidenced-Based, Clinical Practice Guidelines Research.

Areas of importance that you should address—but are not limited to—include:

· Description of the psychopharmacological medication agent, including brand and generic names, as well as appropriate FDA indication uses

· Any supporting, valid, and reliable research for non-FDA uses

· Drug classification

· The medication mechanism of action

· The medication pharmacokinetics

· The medication pharmacodynamics

· Appropriate dosing, administration route, and any considerations for dosing alterations

· Considerations of use and dosing in specific specialty populations, such as children, adolescents, elderly, pregnant people, those exhibiting suicidal behaviors, etc.

· Definition of half-life, why half-life is important, and the half-life for your assigned medication 

· Side effects/adverse reactions potential

· Discuss clinical concerns with EPS and Tardive Dyskinesia

Note:Be sure to include screening tools that would be utilized.

· Contraindications for use including significant drug to drug interactions

· Overdose considerations

· Diagnostics and labs monitoring comorbidities considerations

· Legal, ethical, and social considerations

· Pertinent patient education considerations

Support your rationale with a minimum of 
three (3) academic resources.

· Goldin, D. S. (2023). 
Fast facts for psychopharmacology for nurse practitioners. Springer Publishing.

· Chapter 7, “Antipsychotic Medications” (pp. 110–149)

· American Psychiatric Association (2020). 

The American Psychiatric Association practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia
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· Clozapine REMS (2023). 

What is the clozapine REMS?
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· Utah State University. (n.d.). 

Creating study guides
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.

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Drugs.comLinks to an external site.
. (2023).

Note: Please use the following resource to check the most up-to-date box warnings, FDA approvals and indications, recommendations for follow-up evaluations, changes, etc.

· Antipsychotic Medications

Note: Utilize the following medication table to familiarize yourself with the medications aligned with the topics presented this week.

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