Instructions for Answer to 4 Question

1- After Each DQ (question), write down references

2- 300 minimum words for every DQ, you can go up to 800 words but answer should be complete.

3- 2-3 Peer Reviewed/ scholarly references for each question

4- References should be within 4 years

5- I am in acute care nurse practitioner program.

6- The response to the DQ is expected to be a minimum of 300 words. A minimum of two peer reviewed/ scholarly  resources are expected. These need to be appropriate for a clinical professional to guide decisions about patient care. If a textbook is used for one of these responses, the other needs to be journal or professional-level website. The references need to be correctly formatted, as do the citations for those references.  “ Question words” don’t count towards 300 minimum count”

Question 1

You are an AGACNP practicing as a hospitalist in a tertiary care center. You are tasked with admitting a patient with a chief complaint of an acute neurological disease state. 

Outline a typical presentation for Parkinson’s Disease. List appropriate diagnostic testing, admission orders, and referrals and consultations. Include appropriate screening tools, identify potential risks, and list appropriate interventions to minimize risk and provide preventative care. Highlight differences in presentation of adult versus geriatric patients with neurological emergencies.

Question 2

You are working in a 15-bed rural hospital with an emergency department. You are the only adult-geriatric provider on this shift, and you are presented with the following case.

A distraught older female brings by personal vehicle her husband of 60 years. This is an 81-year-old male farmer/rancher who was out branding cattle when he experienced new onset headache and difficulty using his right hand. He tried to call his wife on his cell phone, but was unable to speak. Instead he blew into the phone and tried to make noises with his mouth. She went to the branding site and transported him to the emergency department.

He is somnolent, but will awaken with stimulation. When awake, he is frustrated and tearful. His right hand is flaccid, and he is aphasic. Your facility has a full lab, full x-ray, and CT machine, but no MRI and no neurology consultation service. You are contractually connected with a tertiary care center that is also a stroke center.

Choose one of the options below and outline your initial assessment, diagnostic orders, anticipated clinical manifestations, exam findings, and your plan.

1. CT (noncontrast), no acute findings. It has been 4 hours since onset of symptoms.

2. CT (noncontrast), no acute findings. It has been 1 hour since onset of symptoms.

3. CT (noncontrast), no acute findings. It has been 4 hours since onset of symptoms.

4. CT (noncontrast), a small intracerebral bleed, no mass effect. 

5. CT (noncontrast), a moderate intracerebral bleed, 3mm of shift, and mass effect.

Question 3

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) , outline a typical presentation, etiology, common differential diagnosis, typical diagnostic work-up, treatment plan, preventative measures, appropriate referrals, screening tools/diagnostic specific scales tools (if any), and additional information that would be important to the geriatric population. Highlight differences in presentation of adult versus geriatric patients with this diagnosis.

Question 4

Conduct research about one hematologic malignancy and summarize the typical presentation (especially laboratory findings such as WBC, RBC, platelets), etiology, common differential diagnosis, typical diagnostic work-up, treatment plan, preventative measures, appropriate referrals, screening tools/diagnostic specific scales tools (if any), and additional information that would be important to the geriatric population.