Complete your Aquifer Case Study for this week (FM22:  79-year-old male with new onset of unilateral weakness).  During the evaluation of your patient, you use 2 tools to assess his functional status.  Discuss the tools that you opted to use for the evaluation of your patient.  How were these tools developed and what does the […]

You are seeing a 79-year-old male in your clinic.  Mr. A has been a patient of yours for several years.  Today his wife is with him and reports that Mr. A has been more forgetful and she is concerned.  Mr. A made several wrong turns getting home from Church last week, today he was unable […]

Select a patient from your clinical practicum (be sure to delete any identifying information) who is over the age of 65 and taking 5 or more medications.  Write a review of the patient’s pharmacotherapy plan identifying pharmacotherapy problems by applying principles of geriatric prescribing and the Beers criteria to your patient.  Identify a plan to […]

Outline a preventive services plan for either a male or female in one of the following age groups.   55-64; 65-74; 75-84; >84   Identify services that include Screening, Counseling, Immunization, and Chemoprophylaxis. Be sure to support your plan with a minimum of 3 sources of high level evidence.

Select an innovative care delivery model for the elderly that you have had experience with or have heard about.  Discuss the risks and benefits of this type of care delivery.  Discuss the measurement of effectiveness of this model.  What are the risks to the elderly population with this type of care delivery.  What challenges still […]

Again, keeper studies can be identified using handy Rapid Critical Appraisal checklists consisting of a set of simple but important questions. Below are sample questions developed for use with quantitative studies that are applicable to most appraisal situations (it’s important to note that qualitative evidence, if it’s relevant to the clinical question, should not be […]

To complete this week, after reading chapter one in Melnyk and reviewing the lectures you need to consider the topic of interest to you. List a ONE to two-word topic that you want to explore further and why you are interested in this topic. This topic should encompasses the question that you have been generating […]

Select an innovative care delivery model for the elderly that you have had experience with or have heard about.  Discuss the risks and benefits of this type of care delivery.  Discuss the measurement of effectiveness of this model.  What are the risks to the elderly population with this type of care delivery.  What challenges still […]

Select one of the topics for this week and outline the demographics, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, morbidity, mortality, evaluation, and management of the disorder.   Responses to peers:  Provide a clinical example from your RN or Student NP experience on the posted topic.  Discuss how the presentation and or management of your clinical example matched or […]

Select one of the topics for this week and outline the demographics, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, morbidity, mortality, evaluation, and management of the disorder.   Responses to peers:  Provide a clinical example from your RN or Student NP experience on the posted topic.  Discuss how the presentation and or management of your clinical example matched or […]