Properly identifying the cause and type of a patient’s skin condition involves a process of elimination known as differential diagnosis. Using this process, a health professional can take a given set of physical abnormalities, vital signs, health assessment findings, and patient descriptions of symptoms, and incrementally narrow them down until one diagnosis is determined as…

Assignment: Asthma and Stepwise ManagementAsthma is a respiratory disorder that affects children and adults. Advanced practice nurses often provide treatment to patients with these disorders. Sometimes patients require immediate treatment, making it essential that you recognize and distinguish minor asthma symptoms from serious, life-threatening ones. Since symptoms and attacks are often induced by a trigger,…

Assignment 8.3: Signature AssignmentSignature Assignment Title: Interview and Summative PaperSignature Assignment Description/Directions: For your assignment, please consider how the professional standards have assisted you in developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the nurse administrator competencies.Identify a nurse leader within your organization that you would like to interview.Create a list of…

In health care, confidentiality is vital. In this assignment, you will learn about the importance of confidentiality and various laws that were enacted to protect confidentiality in health care. You will also look at the legal and ethical implications of using technology while considering confidentiality requirements in the health care industry.       Complete…

University of Phoenix Material   Law Requirements     Complete the following chart.     Define the law (45 to 90 words). Identify stakeholders involved in law (45 words). Differentiate the confidentiality requirements of the law (45 to 90 words). Identify the name of a law that was enacted to protect confidentiality in the health…

THEME FOR THE WEEK: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Case study: You are working in an ER and your next patient to see is a 47 year old female who began having trouble breathing 3 days ago. She felt like it has gotten a little worse today. It is worse when she lays back, and when she tries…

A young man presents to his primary care physician with genital lesions and is told that he has herpes. He refuses to believe this diagnosis because he is in a long-standing relationship with a woman who clearly has never shown signs of vaginal herpes lesions.   1)Construct an informative response to this patient.   2)Thinking…

Post a description of the electrical properties of an individual neuron. Include the following in your description: Excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials being received by the neuron. The role of the summation process in signaling. Ions and channels are involved in generating and propagating the action potential. Ions and channels are involved in triggering the…

For this assignment, you will finalize the FBA by adding the Reasons for Referral, a brief overview and purpose of conducting a FBA, and a summary of the investigations taken in the FBA. Your final assignment should include all the components of the previous assignments, with any corrections or changes made based on prior instructor…

NURS 6501 week 1 Discussion: Alterations in Cellular Processes Post an explanation of the disease highlighted in the scenario you were provided. Include the following in your explanation: The role genetics plays in the disease. Why the patient is presenting with the specific symptoms described. The physiologic response to the stimulus presented in the scenario…