Pathophysiology – DISEASE PROCESS PAPER.

Potential Points
Select a specific disease topic based on an actual patient. Gather, read 20 and cite a minimum of 5 recent scholarly articles, < 5 years, on the topic and include in references list

Summarize

Pathophysiology
Name and description of disease
Risk factor(s) for disease
Etiology
Presenting s/s and clinical manifestations
Physiological changes caused by the disease
Disease progression
Systemic changes (chronic major body systems affected by the disease)
Usual treatment for disease
Prognosis
Brief summary of secondary/concurrent disease
Significance of the problem
Epidemics

Related factors (demographic factors may include race/ethnicity, age, gender, etc)
Formulate Nursing Process [ADPIE]
Assessment, focal
Diagnoses, nursing (actual and complete; 2 physiological, 1 psychosocial)

Planning (significant patient expected outcomes/goals relevant to the problem)
Interventions (ADTR method, independent first-dependent last)
Evaluation (met, partially met, not met with evidence)
Adhere to Professionalism 30
• APA style and format: double-spaced, one-inch margins all-around
(12-point Times New Roman font or 11-point Arial font) (check APA manual and clarify with Professor for APA course expectations)
• Up to 10 pages, excluding the title page and the references or appendices
• Correct grammar, spelling and complete sentences are expected.
• Do not hand in paper with only quotes and paraphrases, or “cut and pasted” information from other sources. To paraphrase is to summarize passages/rearrange order of sentences and change words using synonyms

Pathophysiology – DISEASE PROCESS PAPER

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