HLTH 3201 Pathophysiology Assignment- Clayton State University
Objective: To learn about a common health problem through the shared experiences of a health care professional.
Instructions:
1. Find a health care professional (either a nurse [RN] or nurse practitioner, or a physician[MD]) that you can interview for about 15-20 minutes. During this interview, you will ask them to identify a patient health care condition/problem (ie pathophysiology condition) that is commonly seen in their practice. Focus on the health care problem; this interview is NOT about a single patient or individual.
2. In your paper, you will describe the health care condition/problem (ie pathophysiology condition) as it was explained to you by the health care professional. Include the name, the organization/agency name where the health care professional works and position/title of the health care professional that you interviewed. Explain why the health care professional has identified this problem in their practice.
3. Describe the etiology (cause), incidence (how often it occurs), prevalence (how many people it affects), pathophysiology (how this disease impacts the body), signs/symptoms, common treatments, and prognosis (outcomes). You should use your textbook as a reference and other scholarly references as needed. A scholarly reference is one that was written in a professional healthcare publication by a health care professional. Wiki and general online dictionaries and encyclopedias are not scholarly publications. Use websites with caution, as you still need to have an author and a year to cite in your paper. A website is never cited in the paper as the source, only on the reference page at the tail end of the reference.
A dictionary does not provide enough information that is required, so you are not encouraged to use that as a resource for this section of the paper.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.