NUR 634 Week 9 DQ 1 plus DQ 2
(NUR 634 Week 9 DQ, NUR 634 Week 9 DQ)
NUR 634 Week 9 Discussion Question 1
A 53-year-old male is presenting to you with a 4-week history of low back pain. He does not have an identified traumatic event. He is requesting something for pain. He has history of alcohol abuse but has abstained for 5 years. He has a 25-pack year smoking history and is a current smoker. He takes fluoxetine 20 mg po daily for depression. How would you use the Opioid Risk Tool resource to determine his risk for opioid abuse? How would you counsel him regarding treating his pain?
NUR 634 Week 9 Discussion Question 2
Review Chapters 5 and 17 of Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking identify a mental health or neurological condition and imagine a patient comes into your office with that condition or disorder. What elements in the patient history and physical exam would indicate the patient has the … condition or disorder? Select two differential diagnoses that could … to this patient. How did you arrive at the two differential diagnoses? Include history and physical examination findings that would support each of the two alternative diagnoses.
