Assignment: Pathophysiologic connection between asthma and allergies
N510 Advanced Pathophysiology Module 4 Assignment: Pathophysiologic connection between asthma and allergies
N510 Advanced Pathophysiology Module 4 Assignment: Pathophysiologic connection between asthma and allergies
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1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus.
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Assignment:
Exercises:
Discuss the pathophysiologic connection between asthma and allergies.
Discuss pathophysiology of lung cancer, clinical manifestations, and diagnostic tests.
What are the pathophysiologic changes in COPD and how does it differ from asthma?
Discuss the use of oxygen therapy in patients with a diagnosis of COPD. What are the benefits and the potential pitfalls?
Case Study
Complete Case Study #13 (bacterial pneumonia) in the Bruyere textbook.
Professional Development
Write an essay on your choice of the following topics:
Acute bronchitis
Emphysema
The essay should contain at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook. It should cover the following points:
Explain the pathophysiology of the disease
Discuss common clinical manifestations
List differential diagnoses
Determine which lab tests would confirm the diagnosis and expected results
Analyze a current protocol for treatment and discuss how the treatment works from the pathophysiological perspective.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.