Week 1 disc

Discussion Prompt

Part 1: Choose a condition from the following case studies: Ventricular Hypertrophy, Endometrial Hyperplasia, Reperfusion Injury ().

Part 2: For each week, choose one case study to present. The following must be addressed:

Give an overview of the diagnosis including risk factors and how they cause or contribute
to adaptation or pathogenesis.
Give an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiology of your diagnosis as it occurs over time; include signs, symptoms, diagnostic studies and the underlying pathophysiologic process causing these signs and symptoms. Support this pathophysiology with high level evidence.
Summarize treatments and outcomes in terms of pathophysiologic alterations.
Include a discussion of the symptoms that your patient is exhibiting and discuss
treatments specifically aimed for your patient.
Support your case discussion with current (in the past 5 years) high level evidence. Patient information portals, disease association websites and other resources such as Up-to-date, Epocrates, Medscape, Mayo Clinic are not considered high levels of evidence and should be avoided for your presentations. While use of the course textbooks is permitted, a minimum of 3 high level citations outside of the course text is required. If you are unclear about what is considered high level evidence, please review content from your Evidence Based Nursing Practice Course.

Expectations

Initial Post of Case Study:

Due: Thursday, 11:59 pm PT
Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years

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