For this Assignment, you will review the interactive media piece/branching exercise provided in the Learning Resources.
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 4
Submit your completed Assignment by Day 7 of Week 4 in Module 2.
Submission and Grading Information
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Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
BACKGROUND
An 84-year-old female is brought in by family with complaints of increased confusion and lethargy.
Patient usually lives alone and is fully functional.
Son reports that she has been increasingly confused and sleeping a lot at home.
Son denies any fever.
Patient complains of pain “all over” and responds to repeated questions with “I think I’m sick”
VITAL SIGNS
BP 105/64, HR 115, RR 24, T 96°F, SpO2 92% Room Air
Patient is alert, and oriented to person but thinks is it 1990
PMH: HTN: Metoprolol
DM: Insulin
Other meds: ASA, Calcium
WHAT DIAGNOSTICS WOULD YOU ORDER FOR THIS PATIENT?
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