Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)
Academic Term
Summer 8-1-2017
Document Type
Project
Course Number
5330
Course Name
Advanced Pathophysiology
Professor’s Name
Dr. Chovan
Keywords
asthma nursing pathophysiology
Subject Categories
Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing
Abstract
Asthma is a very important disease to understand in the year 2017. With noncompliant patients due to financial strain, resource deprivation, and overall poor socioeconomic status it is very important that the advanced practicing medical providers understand the underlying pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, medication regimen, and nursing implications associated with asthma. Without the education of this disease process and how to correctly manage an asthmatic patient, a controllable disease can ever so easily turn into a fatal diagnosis. In the intensive care setting asthmatic patients range from requiring mechanical ventilation support, to solely utilizing continuous aerosols. This poster explains all of the important key points in managing and understanding an asthma diagnosis, and how we as providers can continue to be successful patient advocates, as well as what we can do to educate our patients in how they can be successful outside of an in-patient setting. With the proper medication, compliancy, and guided treatment regimen, asthma is a very manageable disease. To do our patients the justice in allowing them to live their life to a full capacity, we must spread our knowledge.
Recommended Citation
Schweickart, Courtney, "N5330 17 SchweickartCourtney Poster" (2017). Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN). 270.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/stu_msn/270