Discuss the etiologic factor(s) that contributed to the development of your patient’s primary disease process.
Instructions/Evaluation
For this assignment, you will work on one patient which will serve as the basis for the Care Plan. You will have to gather data from primary and secondary sources to respond to each category described below: Background Etiology, Morbidity/Mortality, Pathophysiology, Medications, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Clinical Course/Manifestation; utilize reflection and research to respond to the Synthesis section. The associated grading rubric will serve as a guide for the completion and evaluation of the learning activity. There is a strict page limit for this paper. It is expected to be between 5-7 pages of text. This limit does not apply to the title page, the reference page or the expected five appendices.
Background and Etiology of Disease
Etiologic factors are those influences that increase the risk for, or causes a disease to occur – they set the disease into motion. Understanding etiology allows for the development of individualized plans of care and serves to identify way to prevent future occurrence of disease. Diseases may have one etiologic agent or may be multifactorial
For the Assignment:
Describe your patient’s background and history
Discuss the etiologic factor(s) that contributed to the development of your patient’s primary disease process.
Describe the interactive effect of various etiologic agents
Laboratory and/or diagnostic data, in addition to history and HPI may serve to identify an etiologic agent