You will write a case study review which includes your critique. This will be worth 30 points total. Create a detailed case study review in an essay APA format and include as your final page a reference list in APA format. Your review should be double-spaced, 2 pages minimum (not including reference list), with correct grammar and spelling. 

The purpose of this summative assignment is to reflect upon the new knowledge you have obtained from this course and apply it to your chosen case study while developing your critical thinking and critique skills. Be sure to consider all information from the course content – discussion board exercises, videos and any additional readings. Revisit readings from your Gilmore text. Put thought into how well you think the case study conducted their assessment, and how you would augment or improve it. Utilizing your knowledge from our course around assessing community needs, provide a detailed description and critique of your case study. Be sure to review your case study carefully to look for any gaps or areas with which improvements could be made, and justify your thinking. Reference additional scholarly resources to reinforce your justification. Be sure to cite your work appropriately.

Provide a brief (1 – 2 paragraph) description of the population and the health concern or issue being addressed. Explain how your chosen case study did, or did not, do in the area of describing the community, justifying the need for conducting the assessment, etc. Describe how your case study did with (or if they omitted) considering learning styles and theories as well as models to promote health education. Describe how your case study assessed groups and/or individuals (if applicable) and if they considered any factors that impact health education. Using your knowledge around each weekly module, discuss three suggestions for improving your case study. You may present an alternative approach or additional steps that you believe would improve the quality of your case study. Consider these prompts as you complete your critique:

• How did the case study identify the issue and explain the importance of the specific topic within the community?
• Did the case study paint a detailed picture of the population?
• Does it include a detailed description including information on demographics, barriers and challenges?
• Does it justify the need to conduct a needs assessment?
• Does it identify and describe community resources and explain why the resources are or are not effective?
• Does it explain any process for collecting data?

Remember to discuss recommendations. As you have done previously in our discussion boards and weekly modules, apply your critical critiquing skills to suggest what improvements are needed. Finish your essay with a summative paragraph which includes your final thoughts around how your suggested improvements would enhance this case study to meet the needs, or “fill in the gaps” and provide assistance to the community or population represented. 

Finally, include in APA format, a list of references. This should include a minimum of 2 references which are scholarly sources of information no previously referenced in the course. You may use any of the resources that were referred to throughout our weekly modules. You may also include your text as a resource in addition to your 2 references.

 

In order to write a case study paper, you must carefully address a number of sections in a specific order with specific information contained in each. The guideline below outlines each of those sections.

Section

Information to Include

Introduction (one Subheading) (patient and problem)

• Explain who the patient is (Age, gender, etc.)
• Explain what the problem is (What were they diagnosed with, or what happened?)
• Introduce your main argument (What should you as a nurse focus on or do?)

Pathophysiology (Next Subheading)

• Explain the disease (What are the symptoms? What causes it?)

History(Third Subheading)

• Explain what health problems the patient has (Have they been diagnosed with other diseases?)
• Detail any and all previous treatments (Have they had any prior surgeries or are they on medication?)

Nursing Physical Assessment ( Fourth Subheading)

• List all the patient’s health stats in sentences with specific numbers/levels (Blood pressure, bowel sounds, ambulation, etc.)

Related Treatments(Fifth Subheading)

• Explain what treatments the patient is receiving because of their disease

Nursing Diagnosis & Patient Goal(sixth subheading)

• Explain what your nursing diagnosis is (What is the main problem for this patient? What need to be addressed?)
• Explain what your goal is for helping the patient recover (What do you want to change for the patient?)

 Nursing Interventions(seventh subheading)

• Explain how you will accomplish your nursing goals, and support this with citations (Reference the literature)

 Evaluation( 8th subheading)

• Explain how effective the nursing intervention was (What happened after your nursing intervention? Did the patient get better?)

 Recommendations/ Conclusion(last Subheading)

• Explain what the patient or nurse should do in the future to continue recovery/improvement

Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length and will be graded on how well you complete each of the above sections. You will also be graded on your use of APA Style 7th Edition paper and on your application of nursing journals into the treatments and interventions. For integrating nursing journals, remember the following: 

• Make sure to integrate citations into all of your paper
• Support all claims of what the disease is, why it occurs and how to treat it with references to the literature on this disease
• Always use citations for information that you learned from a book or article; if you do not cite it, you are telling your reader that YOU discovered that information (how to treat the disease, etc.)
• At least three scholarly sources on the disease of the case study. At least 3 pages long that is not including the title page and reference page. All subheadings must be in bold. Uploaded a preview of a 7th edition title page. Thanks

 

Module 09 Discussion – Effects of Ageism

Due to the increasing percentage of older adult clients in the U.S., it is imperative that healthcare providers assess and confront their own attitudes and perceptions toward older adults.

In your initial post, address the following:

1. Describe ageism and its impact on societal views of older adult clients.
2. Explain how ageism can influence the healthcare provisions of older adult clients.
3. As a healthcare provider, how can one best assess and confront attitudes, perceptions, behaviors, and biases toward older adults?

Respond to at least one of your peers who has different perspectives than your own.

in Week 1, you were asked to analyze the use of statistics in health care. Now that you have expanded your knowledge base, let’s reexamine that relationship. Have you thought of new ways in which statistics could be incorporated into the work you do? Are there ways in which you could improve processes or patient care using these techniques (related to statistics)? Give specific examples and suggestions.