Explain how this information may impact the way you prescribe medications to patients. Include a specific example of a situation or case with a patient in which the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner must be aware of the medication’s action.

It is important when prescribing medication as a PMHNP to understand the biological

mechanism and biological factors of the particular drug to treat the patient effectively. Better

understanding of the brain function and dysfunction as it pertains to biological mechanism

will aid in new and better treatment and medications (Camprodon & Roffman, 2016).

Prescribing the best medication that works depends on the individual, family history, genetics.

Cells all work and interact different in different people and they way the cells responds can

also vary. For example prescribing meds for a elderly patient with depression versus someone

that is young. Another situation is prescribing an antipsychotic for medication for a pregnant

women versus someone who is pregnant.. All theses situations requires a PMHNP to be very

knowledgeable about what medications they are prescribing to different populations or

individuals. According to Berry &Clarke, Particular mutations in the thyrotrophin stimulating

hormone (TSH) receptor increase constitutive activity toward adenylyl cyclase. Activation of

these receptor will not only increase thyroid hormone production and secretion, but also

cause growth and proliferation of thyrocytes and the changes in these receptors may be the

cancers developing along with the hypothyroidism(Berry&Clarke, 2018)