[SOLVED] Assignment: Preventative Health and Assessing, Diagnosing, and Treating Special Populations

To Prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider preventative health and assessing, diagnosing, and treating special populations.
• Review the case study provided by your Instructor. Based on the provided patient information, think about the health history you would need to collect from the patient.
• Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate in order to gather more information about the patient’s condition. Reflect on how the results would be used to make a diagnosis.
• Identify three to five possible conditions that may be considered in a differential diagnosis for the patient.
• Consider each patient’s diagnosis. Think about clinical guidelines that might support this diagnosis.
• Develop a preventative health treatment plan for the patient that includes health promotion and patient education strategies for special populations.

Complete:

Use the Focused SOAP Note Template to address the following:

• Subjective: What details are provided regarding the patient’s personal and medical history?
• Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment? Include pertinent positive and negative physical exam findings. Describe whether the patient presented with any morbidities or psychosocial issues.
• Assessment: Explain your differential diagnoses, providing a minimum of three. List them from highest priority to lowest priority and include their CPT and ICD-10 codes for the diagnosis. What would your primary diagnosis be and why?
• Plan: Explain your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis. What would your plan be for treatment and management? Include pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.
• Reflection notes: Describe your “aha!” moments from analyzing this case.