Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.
Create a 5- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that can be used in a staff development meeting on presenting different approaches for implementing the stepwise approach for asthma treatment. Be sure to address the following:
- Describe long-term control and quick relief treatment options for the asthma patient as well as the impact these drugs might have on your patient.
- Explain the stepwise approach to asthma treatment and management for your patient.
- Explain how stepwise management assists health care providers and patients in gaining and maintaining control of the disease. Be specific.
What is there in the lecture that you resonate?
Discussion 3A: Why Christian Character Matters
In the initial posting for this forum, discuss these questions: What is there in the lecture that you resonate? What causes you concern? Explain your answers. Clearly state what resonates with you and why it does so. Clearly state what causes you concern and why it does so. Be sure to use the source and the scripture to support your comments. Also, be sure to post to at least two other students.
Listen to NT Wright on Why Christian Character Matters:
Identify at least three possible differential diagnoses for the patient.
Psychopathology and Diagnostic Reasoning
Week 4:Assessing and Diagnosing Patients With Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, and OCD
Your own experiences might tell you that expectations from family, friends, and work—as well as your own expectations regarding achievement, success, and happiness—can create stress. Stressors are a normal part of life, and stress traditionally has been viewed as an adaptive function with a set of physiological responses to a stressor. In a situation where stress is perceived, the organism is physiologically prepared to attack or flee from the threat. Those with effective fight or flight responses tended to survive long enough to reproduce, so we are descended from those who are genetically hardwired for self-protection. When you experience stress, your biology, emotions, social support, motivation, environment, attitude, immune function, and wellness all feel the ripple effect. This stress response is an adaptive response the human body has to threats; however, stress can also be difficult to handle and—depending upon the nature and intensity of the stress—can result in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, or trauma- and stressor-related disorders. This week, you will focus on these disorders and explore strategies to accurately assess and diagnose them.
“Fear,” according to the DSM-5-TR, “is the emotional response to real or perceived imminent threat, whereas anxiety is anticipation of future threat” (APA, 2022). All anxiety disorders contain some degree of fear or anxiety symptoms (often in combination with avoidant behaviors), although their causes and severity differ. Trauma-related disorders may also, but not necessarily, contain fear and anxiety symptoms, but their primary distinguishing criterion is exposure to a traumatic event. Trauma can occur at any point in life. It might not surprise you to discover that traumatic events are likely to have a greater effect on children than on adults. Early-life traumatic experiences, such as childhood sexual abuse, may influence the physiology of the developing brain. Later in life, there is a chronic hyperarousal of the stress response, making the individual vulnerable to further stress and stress-related disease. For this Assignment, you practice assessing and diagnosing patients with anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD. Review the DSM-5-TR criteria for the disorders within these classifications before you get started, as you will be asked to justify your differential diagnosis with DSM-5-TR criteria.
To Prepare:
· Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about assessing and diagnosing anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
· Download the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation ( CPE) Template, which you will use to complete this Assignment. Also review the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Exemplar to see an example of a completed evaluation document.
· By Day 1 of this week, select a specific video case study to use for this Assignment from the Video Case Selections choices in the Learning Resources. View your assigned video case and review the additional data for the case in the “Case History Reports” document, keeping the requirements of the evaluation template in mind.
· Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient.
· Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient.
· Identify at least three possible differential diagnoses for the patient.
For the assignment
Complete and submit your Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate primary diagnosis.
Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:
· Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?
· Objective: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?
· Assessment: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, listed in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5-TR criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
· Reflection notes: What would you do differently with this client if you could conduct the session over? Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion and disease prevention taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).
· Include an introduction, purpose statement, reflection, and conclusion
· Use at least 3 evidence-based resources
How do my life and ministry experiences relate to what we have studied today?
Reflective Journal Entry 3
Part One
Respond to questions 3, 4, and 5 from Macchia, page 148 ( Personal Rules of Life Questions). In anticipation of the text reflection paper for next week, begin to think of some creative means to make your own rule of life more personal than the charts that you’ve used to record your ideas.
Part Two
In week 2, you were asked to explain the gospel to 1–2 people this week. Note the experience in this week’s journal entry.
The reflective journal should blend three emphases:
· Your responses to the course materials, discussions, and assignments
· Your life experience relevant to the course objectives
· Your ministry goals and desires for the future
The journal should record your thinking from several class activities:
· Questions to be answered at this time are Any assignments that are not to be turned in. Incorporate those assignments into your journal.
· What have I learned today?
· How might this material stretch me into new areas of learning?
· How do my life and ministry experiences relate to what we have studied today? Do they clash? Challenge? Confirm my experiences.
· How do this week’s memory verses apply to this week’s themes and to my life?
· Any other reading or experiences you may wish to include in your written record.
Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal.
Scenario: You are submitting an application to a professional conference on data-driven decision making. The application has two parts:
- Providing information to the conference organizers.
- Creating a presentation for the conference audience.
Steps to complete: In Week 9, complete and submit your assignment in Blackboard using the following steps:
STEP 1: Visit one of the following newspapers’ websites: USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. Select an article that uses statistical data related to a current event, your major, your current field, or your future career goal. The chosen article must have been published after the start of this term.
Examples may include:
- Elections/exit polls
- Award shows (Oscars/Emmys/Grammys)
- Sports
- Economy/job market
- Gender equality
- Human rights issues
The article should use one or more of the following categories of descriptive statistics:
- Measures of Frequency – Counting Rules, Percent, Frequency, Frequency Distributions
- Measures of Central Tendency – Mean, Median, Mode
- Measures of Dispersion or Variation – Range, Variance, Standard Deviation
- Measures of Position – Percentile, Quartiles
Note: Once you navigate to a publication’s website, it may be easiest to do a search with a statistics-related word (ex: standard deviation).
The publications listed are suggestions. If you find an article from another source OR if you are uncertain the article contains all of the information necessary to complete the assignment, please let your instructor know. Your instructor can help you determine whether it is a good fit for this assignment. If you need additional help locating an article, contact a Strayer librarian for more assistance. Remember to review the examples in the Week 6 Discussion.
STEP 2: Using the data from your article, use the template included in this assignment to answer the following questions asked by the conference organizers. Remember to consider their expertise as mathematical professionals and use appropriate language to communicate your findings:
- Highlight the purpose of the article and the problem it is trying to solve. Think summary, in bullet-form.
- Explain how the article uses descriptive statistics to communicate information found in the study and/or any conclusions/solutions.
- Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal.
- Recommend solutions using the mathematical and visual data provided.
Explain the potential advantages and disadvantages of nanotechnology in healthcare and discuss whether you would or would not support further research.
Genetic engineering has become a part of our culture, and it is difficult to tell the difference between unmodified and genetically modified food sources, such as plants and animals. After reading this module’s material regarding vectors in biotechnology, consider the potential for nanotechnology and gene therapy.
For your initial discussion post, research nanotechnology and its potential use in biotechnology. Explain the potential advantages and disadvantages of nanotechnology in healthcare and discuss whether you would or would not support further research.
Give and explain at least two reasons why it would be better for a company to choose physical servers over virtual.
Give and explain at least two reasons why it would be better for a company to choose physical servers over virtual. Also, give and explain at least two reasons why it would be better for a company to choose virtual servers.
explain one potential value and one potential limitation related to the factor that define adulthood in both cultures you selected.
Discussion 1: Defining Adulthood
How cultures define adulthood vary dramatically. For some, adulthood may be religious celebration milestones and for others it may be based on a physical change or event. In still others, it may be based on legal factors such as, chronological age or marital status.
For this Discussion, you will explore cultures and factors that establish adulthood. Also, you will examine the value and limitations of utilizing indicators to define adulthood.
To Prepare
- From your Learning Resources, select two cultures in relation to one factor that may mark adulthood.
- Search the Internet and/or the Walden University Library to select an additional scholarly article related to at least one of the two cultures and the one additional factor that mark adulthood to support your Discussion post.
Post, describing the two cultures in relation to the one factor you selected that may mark adulthood. Next, explain one potential value and one potential limitation related to the factor that define adulthood in both cultures you selected.
REFERENCES
Required Readings
Patton, G. C., Sawyer, S. M., Santelli, J. S., Ross, D. A., Afifi, R., Allen, N. B., …. Viner, R. M. (2016, June 11). Our future: A Lancetcommission on adolescent health and wellbeing. The Lancet, 2423–2478.
Credit Line: Our Future: A Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing by Patton, G.C., Sawyer, S.M., Santelli, J.S., Ross, D.A., Afifi, R., Allen, N.B., in The Lancet, Vol. 387/Issue 10036. Copyright 2016 by Lancet Publishing Group. Reprinted by permission of Lancet Publishing Group via the Copyright Clearance Center
Identify and select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests and nursing interventions.
Describe the pathophysiologic manifestations of the disease(s).
Identify and select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests and nursing interventions.
Analyze physiological and psychological responses to illness and treatment modalities
Purpose: Examine case studies related to endocrine system and answer the assigned questions. This assignment should help refine your clinical/critical thinking skills.
Assignment Description: Answer the questions related to each of the patients provided. Your answer must follow APA 7th edition format. Submit the answer in the assignment area of your course.
Patient 1 – The parents of an 11 year old girl bring her for an office visit. She has been developing normally and has been healthy and active. Her parents report that for the past several weeks, she has been feeling tired and weak, drinking more fluids than normal, and has been urinating so much she has wet the bed at night. Two days ago, they noticed that her breath smelled “like fruit” and she lost 8 pounds these last weeks. Yesterday she began breathing fast and deep.
a. Present your initial diagnosis.
b. Describe the pathophysiologic explanation(s) to support your diagnosis and the clinical symptoms presented.
c. List the test(s) you would perform to confirm your diagnosis, the rationale for each test ordered, and the results you would expect if your diagnosis is correct.
d. Describe your recommended treatment(s) and the rationale to support your recommendation(s).
Patient 2– A 45 year old man is being seen because he has been experiencing vision changes, a burning sensation in his feet, and decreasing amounts of urine when he uses the bathroom. He has a long-standing history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Your physical exam reveals retinal hemorrhages in both eyes, and decreased sensation to moderate touch in the soles of his feet. A spot urinalysis shows microalbuminuria and a stat Basic Metabolic Profile (BMP) shows decreased Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR).
a. Present your initial diagnosis.
b. Describe the pathophysiologic processes related to your diagnosis that explain the signs/symptoms, and lab results obtained.
c. State the effect of his symptoms on his life expectancy and the rationale for your answer
What changes could be made to improve their relationship with accounts to ensure improved results and develop a more substantial company position?
Task
• This is an individual task.
• Read the information below and answer the questions.
• Answer the question in report format but make sure you answer the questions, and you have clear structure.
Information:
You are the Sales Manager for an organisation that sells information to mostly to airports and transport companies. The company is 18 months old. The
company treats all accounts in a similar way.
Most of their communication with clients is done using e-mails and inbound tools (Jumplead). You have around 200 clients you work with. The balance of the
accounts is as follows: 80% of your clients account for around 20% of your sales revenue. The remaining 20% of your clients represent the remaining 80% of
your sales revenue but this proportion is falling.
The company currently operates on a European level with focus on UK, Germany and France,l with 3 telesales operators and 1 media (inbound/media)
manager. There is one consultant (a technician) that the company works with who is employed to personalise the software for larger clients. You cover
the CEO and General Manager roles.
Questions
- How does the current approach to sales fail to generate their true revenue potential and, therefore, hinder their contribution to the organizational and sales
strategy? - What changes could be made to improve their relationship with accounts to ensure improved results and develop a more substantial company position?
- Describe how a more integrated marketing communications (Sales/Marketing) might be adapted to enable positive performance.
- Describe how purchasing would work in this organisation with emphasis on how value would be delivered to clients?
• Formalities:
• Wordcount: 2000 words
• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
• Text alignment: Justified.
• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
