Nurse 417 Mod4 Disc ussion post

Please take a look at a process or workflow in your place of employment that is not optimal. For example, do you have to use one system to review PCP orders and another one to chart? Is there a different system for ordering lab work and yet another one for results?...

Chest Pain

Scenario: A 52-year-old male patient who is a house painter presents to the office reporting chronic fatigue and “mild” chest pain. When he is painting, the chest pain is relieved after taking a break. He reports that the pain usually lasts 5 minutes or less and...

Coughing

Scenario: A 56 year-old man with a history of hypertension, diabetes, environmental allergies, and colon polyps presents to the office with a complaint of persistent dry hacking cough that does not improve with over-the-counter treatment with antitussives and allergy...