Discuss three strategies for managing the selected disease in your current healthcare organization.
Discuss three strategies for managing the selected disease in your current healthcare organization.
Investigate pathopharmacological issues related to a specific
disease process.
Choose to investigate traumatic brain injury, depression, obesity,
asthma, or heart failure.
Analyze the various impacts the
disease process has on the patients, their families, and populations at a local, national, and
international level.
Requirements:
Submission must original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the
submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly
quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin
Originality Report available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.
Professional Communications is a required aspect to pass this task. Completion of a spell check
and grammar check prior to submitting your final work is strongly recommended.
Use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed
criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by
more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions
of the course.
A. Investigate one of the following disease processes: traumatic brain injury, depression,
obesity, asthma, or heart failure.
1. Analyze the pathophysiology of the disease process you selected in part A.
2. Discuss the standard of practice for the selected disease process.
a. Discuss the evidence-based pharmacological treatments in your state and how they
affect management of the selected disease in your community.
b. Discuss clinical guidelines for assessment, diagnosis, and patient education for the
selected disease process.
c. Compare the standard practice for managing the disease within your community with
state or national practices.
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3. Discuss characteristics of and resources for a patient who manages the selected disease
well, including access to care, treatment options, life expectancy, and outcomes.
a. Analyze disparities between management of the selected disease on a national and
international level.
4. Discuss three or four factors (e.g., financial resources, access to care,
insured/uninsured, Medicare/Medicaid) that contribute to a patient being able to manage
the selected disease
a. Explain how a lack of the factors discussed in part A4 leads to an unmanaged disease
process.
i. Describe characteristics of a patient with the selected disease that is unmanaged.
B. Analyze how the selected disease process affects patients, families, and populations in your
community.
1. Discuss the financial costs associated with the selected disease process for patients,
families, and populations from diagnosis to treatment.
C. Discuss how you will promote best practices for managing the selected disease in your
current healthcare organization.
1. Discuss three strategies you could use to implement best practices for managing the
selected disease in your current healthcare organization.
2. Discuss an appropriate method to evaluate the implementation of each of the strategies
from part C1.
D. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.
Note: For definitions of terms commonly used in the rubric, see the Rubric Terms web link
included in the Evaluation Procedures section.
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MUST include APA formatted in-text citations with a corresponding reference list for any direct
quotes or paraphrasing. It is not necessary to list sources that were consulted if they have not
been quoted or paraphrased in the text of the assessment.
Note: No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely
paraphrased from outside sources, even if cited correctly. For tips on using APA style, please
refer to the APA Handout web link included in the APA Guidelines section.
