NR 601 Week 4 Midterm Content
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| Institution | Chamberlain |
| Contributor | K. Lauren |
Test content 1 - 4
Week 1: aging (chapter 1 – Kennedy)
Exercise (Kennedy, ch 3)
PFTs/Gold criteria
Chest disorders = 8 and gorroll
- COPD
- CORONARY HEART DISEASE
- HYPERTENSION
- ASTHMA
- CHRONIC BRONHCITIS
- EMPHYSEMA
- ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
- ARRHYTHMIAS
- LUNG CANCER
- MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
- PNEUMONIA
- PULMONARY EMBOLISM
- PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
- VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
- UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION
- RESTRICTIVE LUNG DISEASE
Week 1 presentations
- Medication review-Polypharmacy.
- COPD video
Week 2
- Cardiac concerns- know the HF stages and other cardiac diagnoses discussed in the readings
- Polypharmacy- What is polypharmacy? Know the definitions we are presenting in the dissusion
Guidelines:
- 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines for management of heart failure- know the staging criteria
- Know the normal value for BNP
- 2017 HTN guidelines- know the values for normal, diabetes, and CKD.
- 2013 ACC/AHA guideline on the treatment of blood cholesterol to reduce atherosclerotic cardiovascular risk in adults
- Beers Criteria- Know the purpose for developing the critera.
Why do the elderly need a special criteria?
- What is the risk for the elderly?
Important provider facts:
Week 3
- Health promotion
- Vaccine recommendations
- Organisms responsible for outbreaks:
- Patient education
- Health prevention
- Health education
- Mental health – common symptoms, 1st line medications for each
- Depression
- Insomnia
Week 4
Know Signs/symptoms/diagnostic test/treatment
- Osteoporosis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica Signal symptoms:
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
Types of Pain and common treatments for pain
- Chronic pain
- Untreated acute pain
- Neuropathic
- Nociceptive pain
- Imflammatory
- Muscle
- Mechanical compressive
| Instituition / Term | |
| Term | Fall 2018 |
| Institution | Chamberlain |
| Contributor | K. Lauren |
