Common Diseases and Disorders
Assignment Details: Branching Exercise: Common Diseases and Disorders
For this Assignment, you will review the interactive media piece/branching exercise provided in the Learning Resources. As you examine the patient case, consider how you might assess and treat patients with the symptoms and conditions presented.
To prepare:
Review the interactive media under Required Media: Branching exercise. This is provided in the Learning Resources.
Review the information provided in the case (patient presentation, vital signs, pmh, home meds, results of labs and diagnostics. With this information, critically think about what is happening with the patient.
Use your critical thinking skills and current guidelines to develop orders. Include additional labs/diagnostics, what needs repeated and followed up on. Medications that need to be ordered or changed.
The Assignment:
Using the required admission orders template found under the Learning Resources: Required Reading.
Develop a set of orders as the admitting provider.
Be sure to address each aspect of the order template
Write the orders as you would in the patient’s chart. Be specific. Do not leave room for the nurse to interpret your orders.
Do not assume anything has already been done/order. Use the information given. Example: If the case does not mention fluids were given, the patient did not receive fluids. You may have to start from scratch as if you are working in the ER. And you must provide orders if the patient needs to be admitted.
Make sure the order is complete and applicable to the patient.
Make sure you provide rationales for your labs and diagnostics and anything else you feel the need to explain. This should be done at the end of the order set – not included with the order.
Please do not write per protocol. We do not know what your protocol is and you need to demonstrate what is the appropriate standard of care for this patient.
A minimum of three current (within the last 5 years), evidenced based references are required.
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Fuller, V. J., & McCauley, P. S. (2023). Textbook for the adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner: Evidence-based standards of practice. Springer Publishing Company.
Urinary Tract Infection, pp. 387-395
Infectious Diseases, pp. 517-529
Pulmonary Infections, pp. 234-240
Harris, C. (2023). Adult-gerontology acute care practice guidelines (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.
Pneumonia, pp. 33-36
Pyelonephritis, pp. 160-164
Urinary Tract Infection, pp. 167-170
Covid 19, pp. 274-276
Influenza, pp. 283-285
SIRS/Sepsis, pp. 298-304
Tuberculosis, pp. 308-313
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021, July 22). STI treatment guidelinesLinks to an external site.. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved October 20, 2021, from https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/STI-Guidelines-2021.pdf
Leekha, S., Terrell, C. L., & Edson, R. S. (2011). General principles of antimicrobial therapy. Mayo Clinic ProceedingsLinks to an external site., 86(2), 156–167. doi:10.4065/mcp.2010.0639
Chastre, J., Dela Cruz, C. S., Douglas, I. S., Ecklund, M., Evans, S. E., Evans, S. R., Gerlach, A. T., Hicks, L. A., Howell, M., Hutchinson, M. L., Hyzy, R. C., Kane-Gill, S. L., Lease, E. D., Metersky, M. L., Munro, N., Niederman, M. S., … Weiss, C. H. (2020). Antibiotic stewardship in the intensive care unit. an official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report in collaboration with the AACN, chest, CDC, and SCCM. Annals of the American Thoracic SocietyLinks to an external site., 17(5), 531–540. https://doi.org/10.1513/annalsats.202003-188st
Eyler, R. F., & Shvets, K. (2019). Clinical pharmacology of antibiotics. Clinical Journal of the American Society of NephrologyLinks to an external site., 14(7), 1080–1090. https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.08140718
Kalil, A. C., Metersky, M. L., Klompas, M., Muscedere, J., Sweeney, D. A., Palmer, L. B., Napolitano, L. M., O\’Grady, N. P., Bartlett, J. G., Carratalà, J., El Solh, A. A., Ewig, S., Fey, P. D., File, T. M., Restrepo, M. I., Roberts, J. A., Waterer, G. W., Cruse, P., Knight, S. L., & Brozek, J. L. (2016). Management of adults with hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia: 2016 clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society. Clinical Infectious DiseasesLinks to an external site., 63(5), e61–e111. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw353
Evans, L., Rhodes, A., Alhazzani, W., Antonelli, M., Coopersmith, C. M., French, C., Machado, F. R., Mcintyre, L., Ostermann, M., Prescott, H. C., Schorr, C., Simpson, S., Wiersinga, W. J., Alshamsi, F., Angus, D. C., Arabi, Y., Azevedo, L., Beale, R., Beilman, G., … Levy, M. (2021). Surviving sepsis campaignLinks to an external site.. Critical Care Medicine, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/ccm.0000000000005337
Document: Admission Orders Template (Word document)Download Admission Orders Template (Word document)
Required Media
MedCram. (2016, August 15). Cephalosporins – Antibiotics explained clearly [Video file]Links to an external site.. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgstImOf3k8
MedCram. (2016, March 15). Penicillins – Antibiotics explained clearly [Video file]Links to an external site.. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZt1MiygQHY
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