Influencing Diagnostic Analysis

|Self-Assessments |You decide to have them take a series of self-assessments to aid you in your evaluation. | | |

The second most likely diagnosis is dehydration. According to Arant and Canavan (2009), the diagnosis can be determined by if there has been vomiting, diarrhea, or decreased oral intake. The patient has had decreased tear production, a capillary refill time of more than two seconds, and decreased skin turgor (Arant & Canavan, 2009). All of this points to dehydration.

A. its unprofessional and may lead to a delay in court hearing or process until it is better understood, or corrected. (Sieter chapter 4)

The patient that I have chosen for my diagnostic reasoning paper is a 47-year-ol-Hispanic female. The presenting problem that I have chosen to use as my patient’s chief complaint is back pain. The only other clues that I have to use in order to help narrow my focus is that she is a female, she is 47-years-old, and she is Hispanic. I do not know how long she has been experiencing pain or how severe her pain is. Given these parameters, I will “cast a wide net” as I evaluate my patient and create my list of differential diagnoses.

List and describe two reasons why you believe the TGDM-2 is an effective assessment tool.

I completely agree with you when you said having Diagnostic teams is important in providing quality healthcare. A holistic approach should be taken in treating patients instead of just independently working to find the diagnosis. It is important to acknowledge every profession that is involved in caring for a patient. In the ever changing world of health care, it is becoming very difficult for one individual to properly treat and care for individuals independently. These is because of the complex nature of some treatments.

One of the programs’s requirement is to administer the diagnostic Observation Survey assessments to all students at the beginning and at the end of their program. Currently, the fall Reading Recovery students have reached their end of their 20 weeks of literacy services. OCM, Jefferson-Lewis, and Wayne-Finger Lakes Reading Recovery Teachers are transitioning to service new Reading Recovery students.  The process is overlapping. While the RR teachers are busy collecting data using the diagnostic Observation Survey assessment tool with possible incoming students, their current Reading Recovery students are being assessed by another Reading Recovery Teacher.  Thus, you might be seeing other RR colleagues in your school buildings assessing students

The strength of questionnaires is it can give an insight into respondent’s thoughts and opinions and also cost efficient as it is inexpensive.

A. Individuals suffer from great distress if what they did was not consider “perfect” for them B. The individual is highly competitive, yet has a low self-esteem

The Community and the Issue According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (2016), “One in 5 adults experiences a mental health condition every year. 1 One in 17 lives with a serious mental illness.

The purpose of the principal diagnosis is to establish what condition is causing the symptoms that the patient experiences. In some cases, the patient has more than one principal diagnosis, meaning that a medical condition connections with another condition. This also occurs when more than one separate principal diagnosis is equally responsible for a hospital stay. For example, a patient who has a chronic disease might have multiple recent manifestations that result in an inpatient stay. In this case, the principal diagnoses that caused the most recent hospital visit. The purpose of the primary diagnosis is to establish where doctors focus the majority of resources to treat a condition. The primary diagnosis is not always the principal diagnosis

In the Bible many characters overcame problems while playing a big role in history, one of them was Moses. He was an important person who had many feats, but also suffered in the Bible. While being the man who led the Israelites out of slavery, he was hurt and disliked by many people for a purpose; to spread his religion.

Self-assessments are a journey of understanding and discovery, there are no right or wrong answers when it comes to the results of

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The evaluation from four diagnostic tools shall help in understanding my strengths and weaknesses and development areas. Action plan concludes the whole trial in which my analysis and approach is highlighted in relation to need for self-improvement.