General Instructions
INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1: Review the following client scenario: ASTHMA
Janessa, a 41-year-old female client, presents to the NP complaining of shortness of breath, weakness, and dizziness for “about a month.” She denies having a cough or recent illness. She has a history of endometriosis, and her physical assessment reveals her lungs are clear to auscultation bilaterally, and her mucous membranes are pale.
Step 2: Review your assigned disease process from the chart below. Your assigned disease process is based on the first letter of your last name.
| Last Name | Disease Process |
| A – H | Condition: Anemia |
| I – P | Condition: Heart Failure |
| Q – Z | Condition: Asthma |
Step 3: Review your assigned disease process and answer the discussion prompts below with explanation and detail, providing complete references for all citations.
Step 4: Reply to a peer with a different assigned condition.
Include the following sections:
1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
- Discuss the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of your assigned disease process. Which clinical manifestations observed in Janessa’s case could be explained by the pathophysiological mechanisms?
- Analyze Janessa’s clinical manifestations in the context of your assigned disease process. Do these findings support a diagnosis of your assigned disease process? Why or why not?
- Identify and justify the diagnostic tests (including labs, imaging, or other diagnostic tests) that would be most appropriate for investigating a diagnosis of your assigned disease process in Janessa. What could the results of these tests look like in your assigned disease process?
- Compare and contrast your response with a peer who was assigned a different condition. Does their condition fit Janessa’s case? Why or why not?
Similar to previous assignment, this time the case is different, and my assigned scenario is asthma.