Presentation of Patient and Problem

Presentation of Patient and Problem

Presentation of Patient and Problem

The Title of Your Paper Not the Name of the Assignment

Your First Name, Middle initial. Last Name

WCU

PATH 370: Pathophysiology

Dr. Armida Belvill

Month day, year

The Title of Your Paper Not the Name of the Assignment

Presentation of Patient and Problem

In this paragraph explain who the patient is. Give their age, gender, and anything else. Give an explanation of the specific problem. What were they diagnosed with or what happened to bring them into the Emergency Department, Clinic, or Doctor’s office. Introduce your main argument. State what you as a nurse should focus on or do for this patient. Use in text citation of the Nursing Journal you used to learn what to focus on for this situation. (Author’s last name & Author’s last name, year of publication).

Presentation of Patient and Problem

 

Pathophysiology

Explain the disease in detail. Since this class is pathophysiology this section should have a lot of information. Give signs, symptoms, causes, side effects, issues unique to this disease or condition. (Author, year of publication).

History

Explain other health problems your patient has or has been diagnosed with. Don’t say the patient doesn’t have any. Give them something. Detail any and all previous treatments including prior surgeries and/or medication. Any allergies or no allergies.

Nursing Physical Assessment

List all the patient’s vital signs in sentences with specific numbers or levels. For example: patient’s blood pressure was 140/92, pulse was 80 beats/min, respiration 15 breaths/min. Remember this is a physical assessment which means you will listen to the patient’s lungs, heart, abdomen. You will also palpate the liver, the spleen, the abdomen for any enlargements, tumors, tenderness etc. (Author, year of publication).

Related Treatments

Explain any treatments and/or procedures the patient has received for the disease or condition you chose. (Author, year of publication)

Nursing Diagnosis & Patient Goals

Explain your nursing diagnosis not medical diagnosis. Give the main problem for this patient. May be it is difficulty breathing or feeling lightheaded or having nose bleeds or nausea and vomiting. What do you as a nurse have to address. Explain what your goal as a nurse is for helping this patient recover. What do you want to change for the patient? (Author, year of publication).

Nursing Interventions

Explain how you will accomplish the goals you mentioned in the previous paragraph but don’t forget to cite the nursing journals where you learned this information. Make sure you are paraphrasing the information. Put it in your own words. (Author, year of publication).

Evaluation

Explain how effective the nursing intervention was by explaining what happened after the nursing intervention. Did the patient get better, did they get worse.

Recommendations

Explain what the patient and/or nurse should do in the future to continue the recovery/improvement for the patient. (Author’s name, year of publication)

References

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical,

volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

Lastname, F. M. (Year, Month Date). Title of page. Site name. URL {Web page}

Group name. (Year, Month Date). Title of page. Site name. URL {Web page with no

author}

Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle.

Publisher. DOI (if available) {Books with editors and not authors}

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (E.

Editor, Ed.). Publisher. DOI (if available) {Books with authors and editors}

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (# edition). Publisher. DOI (if available) {Edition other than the first}

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In E. E. Editor & F.

F. Editor (Eds.), Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. pages of

chapter). Publisher. DOI (if available) {Article or chapter in an edited book}

Institution or organization name. (Year). Title of entry. In Title of reference

work (edition, page numbers). Publisher name. {Dictionary or Encyclopedias}

All examples are from Purdue Owl APA https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/ref