The purpose of this assignment is for learners to:

Have the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills learned throughout all core courses in the FNP track and previous clinical courses.
Demonstrate an advancing understanding of the care of women and children.
… the ability to analyze previous patients seen in the clinical setting. Able to perform an evidenced-based review of their case, diagnosis & plan, while guiding & taking feedback from peers regarding the case
Demonstrate professional communication and leadership, while advancing the education of peers.

Course Outcomes
Integrate current evidence based clinical practice guidelines in the care of childbearing and child rearing families.
Appropriately apply anticipatory guidance and health promotion in the care of childbearing and childrearing families.
Assess growth and developmental milestones in the care of childbearing and childrearing families.
Construct an evidence based reproductive health management plan.
Identify and address healthcare needs of marginalized childbearing and child rearing families

Requirements
For Weeks 3 and 7 of the course you will be presenting your own case from clinical. The case should … clear, organized, and meet the following guidelines:]

Initial Case Presentation:
The initial presentation should include BOTH the subjective and objective data on the patient organized as you would organize them in a SOAP (CC, HPI – in paragraph format (no OLDCART); ROS, PE findings, three (3) differential diagnoses with rationale and in-text citation of scholarly source(s) used as support and Two (2) questions for your peers to address. **Do not put the diagnosis or plan in initial post.

WEEK 3: The case should be pediatric (a patient age 17 years or younger). By now, with two full courses and almost all of this course completed you should have seen a pediatric patient at some time.

WEEK 3 specific guidelines: The case must not be something overly simple. The list of things that should not … covered include sore throat, URI, UTI, ear infection, or contact dermatitis (poison ivy). You need to present a case that intrigued you or presents new content in a different light. *One of the above diagnosis can be presented if the findings were unusual and you clear such case with your course faculty prior to posting (at least 2 days before posting). In the pediatric case you must also include in the objective data growth chart percentiles for height, weight, and BMI, and tanner staging. A patient you saw both for initial complaint and follow-up would be ideal, but not required.

Questions:

1. How should the APRN teach the parents to manage the child’s symptoms?
2. Fevers in children under 36 months of age can have potentially serious consequences. For a 2 month old infant, which tests should the APRN considering ordering?