Make a case study. It 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 was he/she diagnosed with, or what happened?)
- Introduce your main argument (What should you as a nurse focus on or do?)
Pathogenesis
- Explain the development or evolution of the disease, from the initial stimulus (how etiologic factors alter physiologic function) to ultimate expression of manifestations of the disease and related complications.
History
- Explain what health problems the patient has (Has she/he been diagnosed with other diseases?)
- Detail any and all previous treatments (Has she/he had any prior surgeries or is he/she on medication?)
Nursing Physical Assessment
- List all the patient’s 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 his/her 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
3-4 pages in length
APA style
your application of nursing journals into the treatments and interventions.
For integrating nursing journals, remember the following:
- Make sure to integrate citations
- 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- Always use citations for information that you learned from a book or article; if you do not cite it, you are telling your reader that YOU discovered that information (how to treat the disease, etc.)
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