Description
Religious, Cultural, Spiritual Beliefs, History Taking, Physical Exam, & Documentation Strategies
For this Discussion, you will take on the role of a clinician who is building a health history for one of the following cases. Your instructor will assign you your case number.
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
76-year-old Black/African-American male with disabilities living in an urban setting.
Adolescent Hispanic/Latino boy living in a middle-class suburb
55-year-old Asian female living in a high-density poverty housing complex.
Pre-school aged white female living in a rural community.
16-year-old white pregnant teenager living in an inner-city neighborhood.
35-year-old transgender white male living in a homeless shelter.
Answer the following questions. Please be specific and relate your questions to your specific case (s). Assignments per case study are below.
What are the barriers to interpersonal communication?
What are the procedures and examination techniques that you will use during the physical exam of your patient?
Describe the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Planning (S.O.A.P.) approach for documenting patient data and explain what they are.
Submission Instructions:
You have been assigned your case number (See Announcement), and you will post about the case number you have been assigned.
You will reply to your peers who have posted on the other two case studies (One of each).
Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in the current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources other than your textbook. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Use at least 1 academic source for each response to your peers other than your textbook. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response).
All replies must be constructive and literature must be used accordingly. Your replies must be at least 150 words each.
Please post your initial response by 11:59 PM ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.
You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.
These are your Case Study Number assignments. Please keep in mind, that you are assigned the same case study number throughout the course, meaning you will always prepare your discussions using the same Case Study Number. Place your Case Study Number at the beginning of your discussion as your heading title.
