In the WGU D115 Unit 3, distributed formative assessment is used to evaluate students' understanding of various health-related scenarios. Let's review the
... [Show More] scenarios and the appropriate health interventions or diagnoses:
Patient with Anorexia Nervosa: The appropriate health promotion intervention is to recommend daily calcium and vitamin D supplements due to the patient's high risk of osteoporosis and stress fractures resulting from anorexia nervosa.
Patient Seeking Fertility Consultation: The important health topic for this patient to review based on prevalence of disease is sickle cell anemia, as it has an increased prevalence in African Americans.
Patient with Family History of Colorectal Cancer: The primary recommendation to decrease the risk associated with this patient's family history is to recommend a low-fat dietary intake daily, as high-fat diets raise the risk of colorectal cancer.
Patient Undergoing Surgical Consultation for Keloid Formation: The phase of wound healing represented in this patient is reconstruction, as keloid formation occurs during reconstruction phase.
Family with Huntington Disease History: The additional information the APRN should provide for this type of genetic transmission is that autosomal dominant diseases typically have a 50% recurrence risk.
Patient Experiencing Symptoms from Amitriptyline: The endocrine disorder the patient is experiencing is the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH), which can cause hyponatremia.
ICU Patient with Signs of Increased Intracranial Pressure: The stage of intracranial hypertension that should be diagnosed is stage 2, characterized by a slow rise in intracranial pressure (ICP) and signs such as drowsiness and headache.
Patient with Symptoms of Schizophrenia: The APRN should expect to find third ventricle enlargement and neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia.
Patient Experiencing a Seizure: The pathologic mechanism of this episode is excessive electrical discharges of the cerebral neurons, leading to seizure activity.
Patient with Blurred Vision and High Triglyceride Levels: The probable diagnosis of these symptoms is lipemia retinalis, characterized by a creamy white appearance of retinal vessels due to excessively high serum triglyceride levels.
In each scenario, the distributed formative assessment assesses students' ability to apply their knowledge of pathophysiology to real-world clinical situations and make appropriate healthcare recommendations or diagnoses based on the presented information. [Show Less]