Common Diseases and Disorders

Common Diseases and Disorders

For this Assignment, you will review the interactive media piece/branching exercise provided in the Learning Resources. As you examine the patient case, consider how you might assess and treat patients with the symptoms and conditions presented.

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To prepare:

Review the interactive media piece/branching exercise provided in the Learning Resources.

Reflect on the patient’s symptoms and aspects of disorders that may be present in the interactive media piece/branching exercise.

Consider how you might assess, perform diagnostic tests, and recommend medications to treat patients presenting with the symptoms in the interactive media piece/branching exercise.

You will be asked to develop a set of admission orders based on the patient in the branching exercise.

The Assignment

Using the Required Admission Orders Template, write a full set of admission orders for the patient in the branching exercise.

Be sure to address each aspect of the order template

Write the orders as you would in the patient’s chart

Make sure the order is complete and applicable to the patient

Any rationale you feel the need to supply should be done at the end of the order set – not included with the order

Please do not write per protocol. We do not know what your protocol is and you need to demonstrate what is appropriate standard of care for this patient.

A minimum of three current, evidenced based references are required.

By Day 7 of Week 9

Submit your completed Assignment by Day 7 of Week 9 in Module 5.

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BACKGROUND

A 68 year old female is brought to the hospital from the acute rehabilitation facility with complaints of shortness of breath and productive cough for 1 week. She was started on ciprofloxin 3 days ago but her symptoms have continued to worsen. Her past medical history includes hypertenstion, hypothyroidism. She underwent a right knee replacement 2 weeks ago. Current medications include lisinopril, ciprofloxin, and rivaroxaban. Her current symptoms include fever, chills, productive cough with purulent green sputum, and worsening shortness of breath.

 Current vital signs T 102.6 HR 92. RR 22 BP 128/82

 O2 saturation is 96% on 4L of O2

 Chest x-ray shows consolidation in the right lower lobe

 CBC and CMP are all within normal limits

How would you treat this patient?