Running Head: Unit 6 Assignment _ Upper Respiratory Infection 1
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Unit1: Unit 6 Assignment _ Upper Respiratory Infection
First Name, Last Name
Purdue University Global
MN 553: Advanced Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics
, Running Head: Unit 6 Assignment _ Upper Respiratory Infection 2
In the case of Mr. Smith who brought his 4-year-old to the office with chief complaints of right
ear pain, sneezing, mild cough, and low-grade fever of 100 degrees for the last 72 hours. The child is
alert, cooperative, and well hydrated with a mildly erythemic throat with no exudate, both ears mild pink
tympanic membrane with good movement, lungs clear. The diagnosis is an acute upper respiratory
infection, probably viral in nature. With Mr. Smith stating that he wants antibiotic to take on his vacation
just in case he needs to give it to his child, lets me know that the parent has knowledge deficit of the
purpose of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections and not viral infections. Secondly, that he doesn’t
know the difference between a bacterial or viral infection. It is challenging for lay persons to differentiate
between a bacterial and a viral respiratory infection. There was a time in the past when patients were
willingly accepting antibiotics for any respiratory ailment, and providers were prescribing antibiotics on a
large scale. Thankfully for research honing in on epidemiology of widespread antibiotic resistance
infections, this practice has changed. Providers are now carefully assessing and not treating the
common cold or viral upper respiratory infection (URI) with antibiotics.
The Communication Plan for the interdisciplinary team would include, the current findings after
assessing the child, the prescriptive drug therapies, non-prescriptive drug therapy instructions that were
provided to the child’s parents and the Non pharmacologic approach. Also important to the
communication plan is a reconciliation of the child’s medications, and/or list of allergies. The next steps
or follow-up plan will also be included in the communication plan. Additionally, it is important that the
interdisciplinary team has the provider contact and the child/parent contact to facilitate the follow up,
coordination and communication on the care of the patient.
A communication plan would include information that there is no efficacy in prescribing
antibiotics to treat a viral URI. antibiotics cannot kill viruses they kill bacteria, so a prescription for
antibiotics would not be best practice in his child’s case. I would additionally assure the parent that URIs
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Unit1: Unit 6 Assignment _ Upper Respiratory Infection
First Name, Last Name
Purdue University Global
MN 553: Advanced Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics
, Running Head: Unit 6 Assignment _ Upper Respiratory Infection 2
In the case of Mr. Smith who brought his 4-year-old to the office with chief complaints of right
ear pain, sneezing, mild cough, and low-grade fever of 100 degrees for the last 72 hours. The child is
alert, cooperative, and well hydrated with a mildly erythemic throat with no exudate, both ears mild pink
tympanic membrane with good movement, lungs clear. The diagnosis is an acute upper respiratory
infection, probably viral in nature. With Mr. Smith stating that he wants antibiotic to take on his vacation
just in case he needs to give it to his child, lets me know that the parent has knowledge deficit of the
purpose of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections and not viral infections. Secondly, that he doesn’t
know the difference between a bacterial or viral infection. It is challenging for lay persons to differentiate
between a bacterial and a viral respiratory infection. There was a time in the past when patients were
willingly accepting antibiotics for any respiratory ailment, and providers were prescribing antibiotics on a
large scale. Thankfully for research honing in on epidemiology of widespread antibiotic resistance
infections, this practice has changed. Providers are now carefully assessing and not treating the
common cold or viral upper respiratory infection (URI) with antibiotics.
The Communication Plan for the interdisciplinary team would include, the current findings after
assessing the child, the prescriptive drug therapies, non-prescriptive drug therapy instructions that were
provided to the child’s parents and the Non pharmacologic approach. Also important to the
communication plan is a reconciliation of the child’s medications, and/or list of allergies. The next steps
or follow-up plan will also be included in the communication plan. Additionally, it is important that the
interdisciplinary team has the provider contact and the child/parent contact to facilitate the follow up,
coordination and communication on the care of the patient.
A communication plan would include information that there is no efficacy in prescribing
antibiotics to treat a viral URI. antibiotics cannot kill viruses they kill bacteria, so a prescription for
antibiotics would not be best practice in his child’s case. I would additionally assure the parent that URIs
