Psychiatric nurse practitioner several mood stabilizers

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When treating a patient for bipolar disorder, a psychiatric nurse practitioner several mood stabilizers from to choose from. You will be assigned to one of the mood stabilizers. Please create a video presentation addressing the following: Provide evidence showing why your assigned medication is a good choice for the treatment of bipolar disorder. Describe how appropriate dosing would be prescribed, and when the first blood level check would be and why. Identify one research or evidence-based practice article to support your responses and include the citation (with a link if available). Describe how your assigned medication works at the synapse. Should blood levels be monitored? If so, discuss what happens if levels are too high or too low. Describe the type of education that would be provided to a patient starting on the medication Valproic Acid (Depakote)

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