Assignment Instructions

Your manager explained that all of the emergency center nurses at RGH will be

educated in small groups through a short, in-service training session. You have been

asked to develop a professional-looking PowerPoint presentation that the trainers will

use to guide the in-service sessions. Your PowerPoint will need to:

1. Be professional-looking, have a title slide, and 10-15 content slides.

2. Use the Speaker Notes feature in PowerPoint to reduce the amount of text that

appears on the content slides.

3. The Speaker Notes for each slide will contain the text that will guide what the

trainer will say while presenting the slides during the in-service.

4.

The content slides themselves should be clear and easy to understand; they

serve as an outline so the audience can follow along with what is being

presented.

5. Be written using proper spelling/grammar and at a level that would be

appropriate for the audience.

6.

Remember the purpose of the training is to help nurses learn to educate their

clients about the use of a medication. With that in mind, it may be helpful to

provide examples of how to explain the information to a client in an easy-to-

understand way without complicated, technical terms.

7.

Include APA formatted in-text citations for at least 3 scholarly references and

present the sources in APA format on a References slide.

8. Contain content addressing the items below for rivaroxaban

9. Pharmacotherapeutics

10.State the drug name and its therapeutic category.

11. Pharmacodynamics- how does this drug work to achieve its intended response?

12. Pharmacokinetics - how is this drug absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and

excreted?

13. Discuss dosage, scheduling, route, and length of therapy.

14. Describe what clients can expect regarding their therapeutic response and when

it should develop.

15. Introduce non-drug measures that clients can do to enhance their therapeutic

response (eg, specific diet to follow, exercise requirements, substances to

avoid, special precautions to take, etc.).

16. Side Effects, Adverse Effects, and Interactions

17. Explain the symptoms of common side effects, and what clients can do to

minimize any discomfort.

18. Explain the symptoms of any major adverse effects, and what clients should do if

they experience them.

19. List the major adverse drug-drug interactions and drug-food interactions that

clients need to be made aware of.

20. Follow-up Care

21. Provide information regarding when clients should call their doctor for advice

(eg,, questions, non-urgent symptoms, unpleasant side effects, etc.).

22. Emphasize any symptoms for which clients should seek immediate care (e.g.

when to go to the emergency center or call 911).