Term Project
Assignment: Select a disease process that we have covered in class. Create a discharge teaching plan for a patient recently diagnosed with the selected disease.
Project should include:
- Patient profile with patient demographics and storyline (appropriate risk factors).
- Complaints and presenting symptoms
- Nursing assessment
- Expected procedures and lab tests to be ordered to confirm the diagnosis. Include an explanation of how the procedures, medications, or tests will confirm/support the patient’s diagnosis.
- Pathophysiology: Explanation of what the confirmed diagnosis is how the patient ended up with this diagnosis (risk factors, health history, etc.)
- Treatment of disease: Medications,5 interventions, diet, procedures, follow up visits, interdisciplinary team, etc. Include rationale for each treatment that you list.
- References: At least two references for the project in APA format
Rubric
- Presentation: completed in a professional and organized manner (15 pts)
- Creativity: Demonstrates creativity in the design of presentation. The presentation is engaging and visually appealing. (10 pts)
- Patient objectives: learning points for the patient and what the patient needs to monitor for in relation to the diagnosis. (25 pts)
- Teaching Focus: Includes topic: disease process, risk factors and medications (25 pts)
- Resources: Did student list who should be involved in the patient care, how interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration promoted patient care and affect the outcome of care? (20 pts)
- References: Utilizes APA format (5 pts)
