NR507 Week 2 Discussion Choose Your Own Pathophysiology Adventure
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.
- Select a condition covered in this course that interests you or is relevant to your nursing practice. Identify the condition you’ve selected.
- Briefly explain your rationale for selecting this particular condition. What influenced your selection?
- Investigate the prevalence and incidence of the chosen condition in the United States (U.S.). What are the incidence, prevalence, and affected populations?
- 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?
2. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
- Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
- Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
- Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
- Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
- Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
Solution: NR507 Week 2 Discussion Choose Your Own Pathophysiology Adventure
The disease I have selected is diabetes, a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion, leading to elevated blood glucose levels (O’Flynn, 2022). I chose the disease because its increasing prevalence in the U.S continues to pose significant public health challenges, despite a lot of research showing it is a manageable disease and that one can achieve remission without the need for medications or any serious side effects by adhering to healthy lifestyle (low-carb diet, regular exercise, and stress management) and medication adherence (Chen et al., 2022). Another rationale for this choice is that I understand that as a nurse, I play a pivotal role in managing it, with these roles ranging from patient education on self-care practices, patient advocacy for interventions (e.g. policy reforms), monitoring blood glucose levels, administering medications, and promoting lifestyle modifications (O’Flynn, 2022).
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (2024), as of 2021, approximately 38.4 million (11.6% of) Americans, had diabetes, out of which 29.7 million were…Click the paypal icon to purchase full solution for $5