{"id":25556,"date":"2023-07-28T05:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-7-signature-assignment-managing-the-acutely-ill-patient-from-entry-to-discharge\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T05:42:11","slug":"week-7-signature-assignment-managing-the-acutely-ill-patient-from-entry-to-discharge","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-7-signature-assignment-managing-the-acutely-ill-patient-from-entry-to-discharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 Signature Assignment: Managing the Acutely Ill Patient from Entry to Discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) must be proficient in managing acute and complex conditions across various settings including the emergency department, inpatient units, progressive care, and critical care units. For this assignment, you will explore the management strategies of one acute illness of a patient in the emergency department (ED), and non-critical inpatient units. Not progressive or critical care unit patients.<\/p>\n<p>Pick one acute illness that you will likely see in the acute care setting.<br \/>\nProvide a brief overview of the pathophysiology of this condition.<br \/>\nDiscuss common signs\/symptoms and consider unique presentations of this condition.<br \/>\nDiscuss how this condition is ultimately diagnosed.<br \/>\nDiscuss how the patient will be managed in the emergency department or non-critical inpatient unit (Consider initial lab tests, medications, imaging, etc).<br \/>\nDiscuss criteria for admission or discharge from the emergency department or non-critical inpatient unit<br \/>\nDiscuss how this condition is managed in the inpatient (noncritical) setting (Include medications, diagnostics, consultation(s), and education, etc).<br \/>\nDiscuss criteria for considering admission to the intensive care unit.<br \/>\nDiscuss management strategies for intensive monitoring of this condition.<br \/>\nFinally discuss discharge planning for this scenario and consider when the patient is stable enough to be discharged home, to a skilled nursing facility, rehabilitation, or other outpatient center.<br \/>\nYour Paper should include a minimum of three peer-reviewed references from scholarly articles no more than 5 years old.<br \/>\nYour paper must include 1 national guideline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) must be proficient in managing acute and complex conditions across various settings including the emergency department, inpatient units, progressive care, and critical care units. For this assignment, you will explore the management strategies of one acute illness of a patient in the emergency department (ED), and non-critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1110],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}