PRAC 6552 Week 10 Assignment 3: Comprehensive Well Women Exam (2 Verions)
(PRAC 6552 Week 10 Assignment 3, PRAC 6552 Week 10 Assignment 3)
75-year-old African American male comes in to the office for lesion on ankle. You made a lot of good points in your post. Some additional testing that I would recommend is syphilis, HIV, and hepatitis B and C. The CDC (2021) recommends women who have had more than one sex partner in the last 6 months to … tested. Since the patient has risky behaviors of multiple sex partners and binge drinking it is important to test her for these additional STIs since some of them can … asymptomatic.
Treatment options
Trichomoniasis- metronidazole 2 grams po x1 dose (Kissinger, 2015). The patient needs education about not drinking alcohol or consume foods or medicines that contain propylene glycol while you are taking and for at least 24 hours after dose (Schuiling & Likis, 2022). The patient’s sexual partner needs to … as well (Kissinger, 2015)
Gonorrhea- ceftriaxone 250 mg IM x1 dose (Francisco-Natanauan, Leatherman-Arkus, & Pantell, 2021)
Chlamydia – azithromycin 1 gm po x1 dose (Francisco-Natanauan, Leatherman-Arkus, & Pantell, 2021)
It is also important to educate the patient about abstaining from risky behaviors of excessive drinking, multiple sex partners and not using barriers such as condoms, which puts the patient at a higher risk of contracting STIs (Schuiling & Likis, 2022). I would also discuss using some type of birth control since pregnancy is not wanted at this time……… Continue