In this mid-course entry into your Nurse E-Portfolio for this course, you will be examining your perceptions of the nurse in the role of collecting and assessing information. Using the e-portfolio format, answer the following questions. Make sure you spend some time thinking about the answers to these questions before writing.

1. What have you learned so far in this course that will help you conduct effective health assessments?
2. What skills do you have you gained?
3. Describe any areas that are still unclear and ways you will gain clarity.

Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below

This week, compose a 1–2 paragraph response to ONE of the following questions. Click on the discussion forum and choose the question you wish to answer. Explore the other questions/answers when you respond to your peers.

1. Explain how you could incorporate parts of the framework for pathophysiology in patient charting (Chapter 1).
2. Give an example of how the body adapts to stress (Chapter 2).
3. Explain the mechanism of cell injury and give an example (Chapter 4).
4. Using the website cancer.net, pick a type of cancer and summarize the latest research about that cancer, using terms from Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 7 and the website.

In all responses, be sure to paraphrase in your own words and cite your supporting sources in APA format. Supporting resources can be your textbook or another scholarly source. Your textbook is provided below as a reference and citation sample.

Reference: Banasik J. L. & Copstead, L. C. (2019). Pathophysiology (6th ed.). Elsevier, Inc.

Parenthetical citation: (Banasik & Copstead, 2019)