NURS6512 Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning
Week 5 Assignment
Digital Clinical Experience: Focused Exam: Cough
In this DCE Assignment, you will conduct a focused exam related to cough in your DCE using the simulation tool, Shadow Health. You will determine what history should be collected from the patient, what physical exams and diagnostic tests should be conducted, and formulate a differential diagnosis with several possible conditions.
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To Prepare
Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide related to ears, nose, and throat.
Review the Shadow Health Resources provided in this week’s Learning Resources specifically the tutorial to guide you through the documentation and interpretation within the Shadow Health platform. Review the examples also provided.
Review the DCE (Shadow Health) Documentation Template for Focused Exam: Cough found in this week’s Learning Resources and use this template to complete your Documentation Notes for this DCE Assignment.
Access and login to Shadow Health using the link in the left-hand navigation of the Blackboard classroom.
Review the Week 5 Focused Exam: Cough Rubric provided in the Assignment submission area for details on completing the Assignment in Shadow Health.
Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate to gather more information about the patient’s condition. How would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
Focused Exam: Cough Assignment:
Complete the following in Shadow Health:
Respiratory Concept Lab (Recommended but not required)
Episodic/Focused Note for Focused Exam: Cough
Note: Each Shadow Health Assessment may be attempted and reopened as many times as necessary prior to the due date to achieve a total of 80% or better (this includes your DCE and your Documentation Notes), but you must take all attempts by the Week 5 Day 7 deadline.
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Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning (BNURS6512)
Assignment for Week 5
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In this DCE Assignment, you will use the simulation application Shadow Health to perform a targeted test on cough in your DCE. You will decide what history to obtain from the patient, what physical exams and diagnostic tests to perform, and how to create a differential diagnosis with numerous probable illnesses.
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To Get Ready
Examine this week’s Learning Resources and think about the information they provide on the ears, nose, and throat.
Examine the Shadow Health Resources included in this week’s Learning Resources, particularly the tutorial to help you navigate the documentation and interpretation features of the Shadow Health platform. Examine the examples that are also supplied.
Examine the DCE
