Signature Case Study

Your signature assignment requires you to research a pathophysiologic topic of interest and create a case study to present information about your topic. You may choose to research and write about ANY pathophysiologic topic of interest to you (it can be a topic we have covered or a completely new one). I am not choosing the topics for you. Remember, you are not looking for an existing case study, instead you are creating the case study (you get to MAKE IT UP so be creative). 
You must address each of the SECTIONS as listed in the instructions.
The entire paper should include a title page, abstract, body, and reference page. See below for further details.

TITLE PAGE = Include the case title, your full name, course, date, instructor, and campus.

ABSTRACT = Summarize the case in a paragraph.

BODY = This is where you address the SECTIONS as listed in the instructions. The body of your paper should include BOLDED headings of each section, then address the information that should be included in each section in paragraph form (see below for an example of what the body of your paper should look like). The body of your paper should be 3-4 pages in length. Do not exceed 4 pages for the BODY of your paper. This is a requirement for all students across campuses and cannot be changed.

REFERENCE PAGE = A minimum of 3 scholarly references are required. At least one of them needs to be a non-internet source. Your textbook is an example of a non-internet source and can be referenced.

The paper must be written in APA format.

In order to write a case study paper, you must carefully address a number of sections in a specific order with specific information contained in each. The guideline below outlines each of those sections.

Section

Information to Include

Introduction (patient and problem)

Explain who the patient is (Age, gender, etc.)
Explain what the problem is (What were they diagnosed with, or what happened?)
Introduce your main argument (What should you as a nurse focus on or do?)

Pathophysiology

Explain the disease (What are the symptoms? What causes it?)

History

Explain what health problems the patient has (Have they been diagnosed with other diseases?)
Detail any and all previous treatments (Have they had any prior surgeries or are they on medication?)

Nursing Physical Assessment

List all the patients health stats in sentences with specific numbers/levels (Blood pressure, bowel sounds, ambulation, etc.)

Related Treatments

Explain what treatments the patient is receiving because of their disease

Nursing Diagnosis & Patient Goal

Explain what your nursing diagnosis is (What is the main problem for this patient? What need to be addressed?)
Explain what your goal is for helping the patient recover (What do you want to change for the patient?)

 Nursing Interventions

Explain how you will accomplish your nursing goals, and support this with citations (Reference the literature)

 Evaluation

Explain how effective the nursing intervention was (What happened after your nursing intervention? Did the patient get better?)

 Recommendations

Explain what the patient or nurse should do in the future to continue recovery/improvement

 
Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length and will be graded on how well you complete each of the above sections. You will also be graded on your use of APA Style and on your application of nursing journals into the treatments and interventions. For integrating nursing journals, remember the following: 

Make sure to integrate citations into all of your paper
Support all claims of what the disease is, why it occurs and how to treat it with references to the literature on this disease
Always use citations for information that you learned from a book or article; if you do not cite it, you are telling your reader that YOU discovered that information (how to treat the disease, etc.)

*Extra insturctions are attached.**
*** I need full points on this assignment so please do your best. Thank you!