ASSESSMENT
AND PLAN
Source: Goroll: Primary Care Medicine, 801
Source: Goroll: Primary Care Medicine, 801
nSocial
Implications: Mrs. D.V. is a
homemaker and is not currently
employed. She has few responsibilities except picking up and dropping off her children from work.
Her condition doesn’t permit her from
working. However, she is lucky that
her husband has a steady job. Her family is very supportive.
nPatient
Education: Mrs. D.V. knows a great deal already about her condition from physicians here in the U.S. as well as Holland. It is important that all patient’s
understand that fibromyalgia is a non life-threatening chronic condition with no known cure. Very little is
known about the cause of fibromyalgia.
It is important to emphasize that it
is a real condition.
Also let her know the use of amitryptyline is for sleep not depression.