Considering Ethnicity and Sex in the Role of Pharmacology in Psychiatric Nursing
The role of pharmacology is integral in psychiatry. As nurses we encounter clients with mental health issues at all levels of health care from acute to community. With the development of effective medication to treat many psychiatric disorders there has also been an increase in use of medication as a first line of treatment (McCabe, 2004). The readings for this section made me reflect my role as a nurse and how use of psychiatric medication may be optimized for the best treatment of the client in a way that involves much more than simply having an order written by a doctor and hand out pills. Gender and Psychopharmacology Intuitively one would imagine that because psychotropic medication is widely used in North America that there has been extensive testing conducted on both men and women to substantiate safety of medication. With my background in psychology it does not come as a surprise to me that historica...