Consider the following scenario:

As an advanced practice nurse at a community health clinic, you often treat female (and sometimes male patients) with hormone deficiencies. One of your patients requests that you prescribe supplemental hormones.

This poses the questions: How will you determine what kind of treatment to suggest?

What patient factors should you consider? Are supplemental hormones the best option for the patient, or would they benefit from alternative treatments?

To prepare:

•Review Chapter 56 of the Arcangelo and Peterson text, as well as the Holloway and Makinen and Huhtaniemi and Hollway articles in the Learning Resources.

•Review the provided scenario and reflect on whether or not you would support hormone replacement therapy.

•Locate and review additional articles about research on hormone replacement therapy for women and/or men. Consider the strengths and limitations of hormone replacement therapy.

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Based on these strengths and limitations, explain why you would or why you would not support hormone replacement therapy.

Explain whether you would prescribe supplemental hormones or recommend alternative treatments to patients with hormone deficiencies and why.

REFERENCES:

Arcangelo, V. P., & Peterson, A. M. (Eds.). (2013). Pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice: A practical approach (3rd ed.). Ambler, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Chapter 56, "Menopause and Menopausal Hormone Therapy" (pp. 884-895)

Holloway, D. (2010). Clinical update on hormone replacement therapy. British Journal of Nursing, 19(8), 496-504. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Mäkinen, J. I., & Huhtaniemi, I. (2011). Androgen replacement therapy in late-onset hypogonadism: Current concepts and controversies-A mini-review. Gerontology, 57(3), 193-202. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.