Herzing NU621 Unit 7 Discussion Latest 2020 March

NU621 Advanced Pathophysiology

Unit 7 Discussion

Pathophysiologic Diagnosis

Case #1:  A 55-year-old woman presents to the office with bloody urine and dysuria

of 12-hour duration. She was recently married and has never had similar

symptoms. She denies chills and fever. On physical examination she is afebrile, has normal vital signs, and has mild tenderness in the midline above the pubis. Her urinalysis shows too many to count (TNTC) red blood cells.se

What is the definition of bacteriuria?

What additional history do you need to make a diagnosis?

What diagnostic studies would you order and why?

Case #2:  A 23-year-old woman was married a year ago. Since then, she has experienced five attacks of acute cystitis, all characterized by dysuria, increased frequency, and urgency. Each infection responded to short-term treatment with trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole. The recurrences occurred at intervals of 3 weeks to 3 months following completion of antibiotic therapy. For the past two days, the woman has been experiencing acute flank pain, microscopic hematuria, dysuria, increased frequency, and urgency.

Her vital signs are T = 37.9°C, P = 106, R = 22, and BP = 130/75 mm Hg. Physical examination reveals costovertebral tenderness, mild tenderness to palpation in the suprapubic area, but no other abnormalities.

What are possible reasons for this woman’s pain? List possible differential diagnosis and explain each?

What diagnostic tests should you order to confirm diagnosis?

What are the possible causes of recurrent lower UTIs?

What are the differences when comparing prerenal acute renal failure, intrarenal acute renal failure, and postrenal acute renal failure? Give examples of each.

Cite current research findings, national guidelines, and expert opinions and controversies found in the medical and nursing literature to support your position.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Discussion Peer/Participation Prompt [Due Sunday]

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts.  To ensure that your responses are substantive, use at least three of these prompts:

Look at your course colleagues’ PDSA model schemata.

Review the ‘P’ and the ‘S’ of your course colleagues’ schemata from your advanced practice nursing role perspective – educator, leader or practitioner.  From your advanced practice mindset reflect on a discussion you would like to have with two of your course colleagues about their schemata.

Post a response individually to each of them that expresses your advanced practice nursing role perspective of the data represented in their schemata.

Use scholarly resources relevant to your advanced practice nursing role to support the key elements of the peer discussions you construct. [For example - if you are a nurse educator (clinical or academic) what are your thoughts about their ability to follow task instructions for constructing the assignment, etc.?; if you a nurse leader what are your thoughts about the success of their application of a process improvement model, etc.?; if you are a nurse practitioner what are your observations about the non-conventional modality presented in the schemata, can you locate any evidence or the foundational basic sciences that support the modality, etc.?

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.