NR507-11171 Discussions Week 2: Discussion: Choose Your Own Pathophysiology Adventure, Part 1 of 3

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Preparing the Discussion

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

General Instructions 

This discussion represents the first step in a three-step discussion series where you will choose your own pathophysiology adventure to analyze and present to the class. In this step of the discussion series, you will select a disease process for analysis and conduct initial research into the condition. 

Include the following sections:

  1. Application of Course Knowledge:Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.  
  1. Select a condition covered in this course that interests you or is relevant to your nursing practice. Identify the condition you’ve selected. 
  2. Briefly explain your rationale for selecting this particular condition. What influenced your selection? 
  3. Investigate the prevalence and incidence of the chosen condition in the United States (U.S.). What are the incidence, prevalence, and affected populations? 
  4. Find and summarize a scholarly article that discusses your selected condition. What does the article say about your condition and its pathophysiology and manifestations? How is the article relevant to your understanding of the condition? 
  1. Integration of Evidence:Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:  
  1. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post. 
  2. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post. 
  3. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post. 
  4. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.  
  5. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations. 
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue:Engage peers and faculty by asking questions and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.  
  1. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer on a condition other than the one you selected.  
  2. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.  
  3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.  
  1. Professionalism in Communication:Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.  
  2. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references free of errors.  
  3. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty) by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.  

7. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week