Problem: Apply semester 1 program concepts and course concepts from weeks 1-4 to develop a plan of care for the client.
Instructions:
Choose a client from experiential and further develop or from your nursing experience/ practice of a chronic complex client or make a scenario of a client with chronic complex disease.
Apply your first semester courses of evidenced-based practice, pharmacology, health assessment, and pathophysiology
Part 1: Plan Of Care Approach (60%)
- Brief Outline (max 5 sentences)
- Outline your patient situation (10%)
- In a simple paragraph outline your client's diagnosis , medications, symptoms, and vital signs
- Assessment (25%)
- Medical diagnosis
- Briefly explain the pathophysiology
- Focused pharmacologic management
- Key elements
- Drug classes
- Organized
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- System Data Collection
- Head to Toe Physical Assessment
- Subjective
- Objective
- Analyze cues and generate priorities (List Actual and at Risk for problems) (5%)
- Review the assessment data collected.
- From this information identify and create a list of areas of concern/symptoms for your client
- Actual
- Presenting problem(s)
- At-risks issues
- Potential complications
- Prioritize - List with rationale (15%)
- Prioritize the grouping of data collected from the highest to the lowest order of priority with rationale
- Identify the main priority of care
- Judgments and inferences (ways of knowing) (25%)
- Look back at the data you collected.
- Remember during data collection you are making inferences/judgments.
- Ask yourself how do I know this?
- What data did I collect to support my inference or judgment?
- State a goal of care based on priority (10%)
Part 2: Creativity (30%)
Each paragraph represents the culmination of your understanding of course concepts. Integrate several aspects of course concepts in a cohesive manner to demonstrate your understanding. Creativity is the use of original ideas that are innovative and presented in a unique manner.
Part 3: Academic writing and APA formatting (10%)
APA Formatted:
- APA format with a clear and well-developed introduction, body, and conclusion
- 4 pages, Word processed double spaced responses in APA template, times new roman, 12 font, 2.5 cm margins
- A minimum of 3-course resources must be utilized and referenced within paper (in-text citation) and in the reference list
- Title page
- Template completed including in-text citations/ references, title page and reference page
- Reference page