NR 603 Week 5, NR 603 Week 5
For Week 5 of the course the faculty will not be providing a case study. Instead you will choose from an area that you have an opportunity for improvement that was … on your APEA predictor exam. You will research that area of content in relation to complaints and disorders that commonly occur in family practice. Please work up a case study that begins with a chief complaint commonly seen in primary care basedon that disorder. The case should … clear and include all elements of a normal case that might … in class (subjective, objective, assessment, and full five (5) point plan). The clinical logs will … helpful for this process, or notes you have taken in clinical regarding cases. The case should … clear, organized, and meet the following guidelines:
Week 5 Part 1: Due by Week 5.
- Step 1. Review your Week 4 APEA Predictor Exam Results and focus on the “Percent Correct by Knowledge Area” Choose a knowledge area on which you scored the lowest to work on this week.
- Step 2. Once you’ve chosen the subject, research and work up a common chief complaint from that system that you haven’t learned already in the program and present your findings in the discussion threads. Push yourself to explore diagnoses in this area that are still common to primary care, but not a repeat of content learned in this or other courses.
- Step 3. Respond to one other student’s CC work up as well as any questions posed to you by faculty.
Work up includes:
- Chief complaint, PMHx, Demographics, PSHx, allergies, lifestyle
- Associated risk factors/demographics that contribute to the chief complaint and differential diagnoses
- Three common differential diagnoses represented by the CC including pathophysiology and rationale:
- Discuss how the three differential diagnoses differ from each other in: occurance, pathophysiology and presentation.
- Relevant testing required to diagnose/evaluate severity of the three differential diagnoses; and
- Review of relevant national guidelines related to the diagnosis and diagnostic testing for these diagnoses
Week 5 Part 2: Due by end of Week 5
- Post your first line treatment plan based on one dx your differential list in SOAP format.
- Responds to atleast one student’s CC write up and all faculty questions posted directly to you.