Pathophysiology Case Presentation
Each group will prepare and present pathophysiology case presentations. You will be assigned to a group during Week 1 and throughout this course, you will continue to work in small groups and discuss the presentations posted by the members in your small group.
Groups will be assigned a diagnostic topic and patient scenario to present as a case presentation via the announcements. Presentations will be completed as a narrated PowerPoint Presentation and posted in the Discussion Board for the corresponding week. For example, the Week 3 PowerPoint will get posted in the Week 3 Discussion Forum titled “Week 3: Group Presentation”. You will only need the group leader to submit the PowerPoint each week within the discussion forum (the group leader changes every week).
Pathophysiology Case Presentation
Directions:
- Give an overview of the patient with the presumptive diagnosis*. You can “create” a patient case based on your knowledge of the diagnosis, based on a patient you have seen in your work or personal experience. [FIND THE PATIENT CASE SCENARIO ATTACHED AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT]
- Give an overview of the diagnosis including risk factors and how they cause or contribute to adaptation or pathogenesis.
- Give an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiology of your diagnosis as it occurs over time; include signs, symptoms, diagnostic studies and the underlying pathophysiologic process causing these signs and symptoms. Support this pathophysiology with high level Evidence.
- Summarize treatments and outcomes in terms of pathophysiologic alterations.
- Once you have had an in-depth discussion of your diagnosis overall, be sure to connect your case discussion back to the patient you have presented. Example, if your patient has HTN and DM, be sure to include a discussion of the symptoms that your patient is exhibiting and discuss treatments specifically aimed for your patient.
Pathophysiology Case Presentation
- Support your case discussion with current (in the past 5 years) high level evidence. Patient information portals, disease association websites and other resources such as Up-to-date, Epocrates, Medscape, Mayo Clinic are not considered high levels of evidence and should be avoided for your presentations. While use of the course textbooks is permitted, a minimum of 3 high level citations outside of the course texts is required. If you are unclear about what is considered high level evidence, please review content from your Evidence Based Nursing Practice Course
- Include some graphics to support your presentation and to make it more visually engaging
- The discussion of the case progression and pathophysiology is typically 10-15 slides (excluding title and reference slides), and 15-20 minutes in length. APA formatting for your presentation is required.
Patient Case
46-year-old, male is admitted to the ER. with SOB that started 2 days ago. He has been feeling a bit dizzy and has a mild chest pain, mostly on inspiration since morning. He stated that his calves are sore and a little swollen. As the nurse in charge, you can see that is using accessory muscles to breathe. he is using accessory muscles to breathe in and he complains that I am always breathing very deeply which is very tiring.