Main Post Discussion Week 3 Pathophysiology of Acute Pain Pain is felts by an individual when there is an underline issue or health condition within the individual’s body. Acute pain is also known as nociceptive pain which is experienced promptly indicating that something unfavorable is going on in the body that needs urgent attention (Huether & McCance, 2017). When a person suddenly experiences acute pain, it indicates that there is an ongoing activation of the peripheral pain receptors...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF 49-YEAR-OLD PATIENT WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS 2 A 49-year-old patient with rheumatoid arthritis comes into the clinic with a chief complaint of a fever. The patient’s current medications include atorvastatin 40 mg at night, methotrexate 10 mg PO every Friday morning, and prednisone 5 mg PO QAM. He states that he has had a fever up to 101 degrees F for about a week and admits to chills and sweats. He says he has had more fatigue than usual and reports some chest pain...

Module 1 Assignment: Case Study Analysis A 42-year-old man comes to clinic with chief complaint of pain, redness, and swelling of his right calf. He states that he had been working in his yard using a string trimmer when the trimmer slipped and cut his leg. He cleaned the wound with water from the garden hose and covered the wound with a large Band-Aid. Several days later, he developed fever to 100.6˚ F and chills and noticed that his leg was swollen and red. He comes to the emergency depa...

ADAPTIVE RESPONSE 2 All advances practice nurses are required to understand this adaptive mechanism in other for them to effectively identify significant changes in a patient’s condition. This change occurring within the body could give a sign to the practitioner that there is an underlining issue going on in the body at a specific time. Not only does changes signify a problem in the systems or organs, it also allows the advance nurse practitioner recognize symptoms in other to adequate...

CVI & DVT 2 diagnose the patient and provide the best treatment options for the patient. The body is made up of arteries and veins. The causes of CVI and DVT are different but they occur due to venous system failure (Davies, 2019). The purpose of this assignment is to provide detailed information of the pathophysiology, similarities, and differences between chronic venous insufficiency and deep venous thrombosis and provide 2 mind maps on DVT and CVI. Pathophysiology of chronic venous insu...

Main Post Discussion Week 3 Pathophysiology of Acute Pain Pain is felts by an individual when there is an underline issue or health condition within the individual’s body. Acute pain is also known as nociceptive pain which is experienced promptly indicating that something unfavorable is going on in the body that needs urgent attention (Huether & McCance, 2017). When a person suddenly experiences acute pain, it indicates that there is an ongoing activation of the peripheral pain receptors...

Main Post Discussion 2 Week 5 Anaphylactic shock is a distributive shock to the body due to an allergic reaction which causes hypersensitivity and releases large amounts of histamine, which results in vasodilation (Hammer & McPhee, 2014). With anaphylactic shock, hypotension is noted because of the increasing size of the vascular system becoming larger than the amount of blood in it, though actual blood volume happens to be normal (Hammer & McPhee, 2014). Anaphylaxis is a potentially life-...