Your Signature Assignment helps you apply your knowledge from this course. In the assignment, incorporate readings and research from all eight weeks of the course, including information from your annotations completed in weeks 5-7. Choose one multi-system disorder from the following list and write a 3 page analysis.
Choose one topic only:
Shock – Septic (adult only), or
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (adult only), or
Burns – full thickness over 50% of body involving extremities and truck (adult only), or
Shock (Septic) leading to Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (children only), or
Burns – full thickness over 50% of body involving extremities and truck (children only)
Include the following sections in your analysis:
Background – You may want to locate a case report in scholarly literature and use the patient-case as a guide during the writing of this assignment (a citation and reference is expected if using a case report).
Etiology – provide details specific to your chosen disorder (using a patient case will help with this section).
Pathophysiology – Provide details of the pathophysiology that is occurring at the cellular level for involved body systems (you can use tables and figures; however, your writing will be in your own words).
Clinical Manifestations – patient presentation at early onset of disease process.
Recommendations for Treatment – at initial diagnosis of disorder.
Reflection – reflect on this signature assignment and your learning process including (but not limited to) how course information supplemented your learning, how you will use this knowledge of pathophysiology for your own professional practice, how did your individual research supplement this assignment and your learning, identify the knowledge you want to expand on that was not included in this course.
APA Style expectations – Running Head, Title Page, Reference Page are included; Body of paper is 3 pages (not including the title and reference pages, nor the tables and figure pages, or the appendices pages); Titles and Headings are included and correctly formatted per APA Style; scholarly Citations and References are included and correctly formatted; Figures and Tables (if included), are correctly formatted and located after the reference section, per APA Style; Appendices (if included, are correctly formatted and located after the reference section, following the Tables and Figures [if included], per APA Style).