Assignment: Sick Child Clinical Case Presentation
Requirements
You will be presenting your own case from clinical. The case should be clear, organized, and meet the following guidelines:
Initial Case Presentation:
Present only the subjective and objective data only on the patient organized as you would organize them in a SOAP (CC, HPI (no OLDCART for HPI); ROS, PE findings, and any lab or diagnostic findings for your patient.
The case should be pediatric (a patient age 17 years or younger).
Specific Guidelines: The case must not be something overly simple. The list of things that should not be covered include sore throat, URI, UTI, ear infection, or contact dermatitis (poison ivy). You need to present a case that intrigued you or presents new content in a different light. *One of the above diagnosis can be presented if the findings were unusual and you clear such case with your course faculty prior to posting (at least 2 days before posting). In the pediatric case you must also include in the objective data growth chart percentiles for height, weight, and BMI, and tanner staging. A patient you saw both for initial complaint and follow-up would be ideal, but not required.
Leading the Discussion: Post your subjective, objective, and diagnostic data for your patient.
Interactive Dialogue: As a student you will also be required to respond to at least two other students initial case presentation. In your responses, you must include the following: Your top three differentials based on the information provided and why (rationale based on presentation findings), the primary diagnosis you are leaning toward, how you would treat that diagnosis. Use references to support your response.
Clinical Case Presentation Summary Criteria:
Post a summary reply to your initial post and respond to any faculty questions to your initial posting or question(s) posed to the general class. Use references to support all of your responses.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.