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Assignment Prompt & Instructions

Make a case study. It must carefully address a number of sections in a specific order with specific information contained in each. The guideline below outlines each of those sections.

**Section**

**Information to Include**

Introduction (patient and problem)

– Explain who the patient is (Age, gender, etc.)
– Explain what the problem is (What was he/she diagnosed with, or what happened?)
– Introduce your main argument (What should you as a nurse focus on or do?)

Pathogenesis

– Explain the development or evolution of the disease, from the initial stimulus (how etiologic factors alter physiologic function) to ultimate expression of manifestations of the disease and related complications.

History

– Explain what health problems the patient has (Has she/he been diagnosed with other diseases?)
– Detail any and all previous treatments (Has she/he had any prior surgeries or is he/she on medication?)

Nursing Physical Assessment

– List all the patient’s health stats in sentences with specific numbers/levels (Blood pressure, bowel sounds, ambulation, etc.)

Related Treatments

– Explain what treatments the patient is receiving because of his/her disease

Nursing Diagnosis & Patient Goal

– Explain what your nursing diagnosis is (What is the main problem for this patient? What need to be addressed?)
– Explain what your goal is for helping the patient recover (What do you want to change for the patient?)

Nursing Interventions

– Explain how you will accomplish your nursing goals, and support this with citations (Reference the literature)

Evaluation

– Explain how effective the nursing intervention was (What happened after your nursing intervention? Did the patient get better?)

Recommendations

– Explain what the patient or nurse should do in the future to continue recovery/improvement

3-4 pages in length

APA style

your application of nursing journals into the treatments and interventions.

For integrating nursing journals, remember the following:

– Make sure to integrate citations
– Support all claims of what the disease is, why it occurs, and how to treat it with references to the literature on this disease
– Always use citations for information that you learned from a book or article; if you do not cite it, you are telling your reader that YOU discovered that information (how to treat the disease, etc.)

– a month ago