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Concept Map Template

Instructions

You may use the template on the following page to help you complete your Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Concept Map assessment.

Remember to insert APA style, in-text citations where appropriate.

Add additional items and connections as appropriate to fully develop your concept map.

You are not required to use this template. You may use a different template or tool.

If you encounter accessibility issues while working with this template, please contact your instructor for assistance and possible alternatives.

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Vila Health: Using Concept Maps for Diagnosis

ST. ANTHONY MEDICAL CENTER

ICU

You are an ICU nurse (black male) at St. Anthony Medical Center. You have been assigned Mrs. Smith (black female), a 52-year-old with a history of Type II Diabetes Mellitus, who was admitted this morning with high glucose levels and Acute Renal Failure.

Ask her some questions in order to create a concept map.

Select each icon to continue.

Mrs Smith in ICU Question - I see that your HA1C is at 8.5. Can you give me a history of your blood glucose readings over the last 2 weeks?

RESPONSE

Mrs. Smith: My fasting blood sugars have been running around 200 with it getting as high as 350+ after each meal. I can tell that I wasn’t feeling very good, and I am swelling in my legs more than usual. I also have some blurred vision and I am very tired.

Are you experiencing any other symptoms?

RESPONSE

Mrs. Smith: Yes, I think so but I’m not sure if they are related. What are some of the other things going on?

HIDE RESPONSE

Mrs. Smith: I have not voided as often as before, and I feel a little short of breath when I get up to walk to the mailbox. I also feel weak and even a little nauseous.

Mrs Smith at Home Good afternoon Mrs. Smith! I see that your blood sugar levels were very high prior to being admitted to ICU. Can you tell me what they are running since this morning?

HIDE RESPONSE

Mrs. Smith: Yes, I can. My fasting blood sugar was 125 this morning, and I checked it 2 hours after breakfast with a result of 140. I am so glad to be home! I am being more careful on my diet since I came home. Hopefully, I will know enough to keep my diet good, so my blood sugars stay normal.

How are you voiding now?

HIDE RESPONSE

Mrs. Smith: My kidneys are working great! I am able to get up to void without any problems. I void several times a day now and it is a pale-yellow color with no odor. Can you see that my ankles aren’t too swollen? They look much better. I can wear socks and even put some shoes on now 😊

Do you have someone in the home that helps you with your meals and care?

HIDE RESPONSE

Mrs. Smith: a. Well…my daughter tries to come by every evening, but she has 3 kids and work, so I don’t expect her to come every day. If she is unable to come and cook, I usually just make a sandwich or have a bowl of cereal. Those are easy for me to make, but I don’t cook as much as I used to.

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Assessment 1

Guiding Questions: Concept Map

This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Concept Map assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, as an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.

Part 1: Concept Map

Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a condition that has impaired glucose or metabolic imbalance as related aspects.

Does your concept map fully illustrate the case study, the diagnostic and treatment connections for the condition in the case study, the specific metabolic or glucose-related aspects of the condition, and interprofessional strategies?

· Does your concept map contain all the relevant sections and connections that are present in the example concept map that is most closely related to yours?

Does your concept map illustrate the desired high-quality outcomes of treatment in the context of your chosen case study?

Did you use at least 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence as the basis for your concept map?

· Note: You will need to further discuss the value and relevance of this evidence in your narrative. However, be sure to cite where specific evidence or sources were used in your concept map.

· The evidence you cite should be no more than five years old.

Part 2: Additional Evidence (Narrative)

Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your concept map.

Have you noted why the evidence you have presented in your concept map is valuable and relevant to the case study you are using as the basis for the concept map?

· Have you explained why each particular piece of evidence is appropriate to the case study you are using?

· Have you explained the linkage between the evidence and the specific metabolic or glucose-related aspects of the condition from your chosen case study?

· Have you explained why the evidence you have used is the best available? In other words, how is it linked to best practices, professional or regulatory guidelines, et cetera?

Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.

What interprofessional strategies are most applicable to the context of the case study that you are using as the basis for the concept map?

· Why are these interprofessional strategies appropriate in the context of the case study and your concept map?

What are the desired outcomes in your concept map (or for the case study that you are using)?

· How will the interprofessional strategies you deemed appropriate and applicable help to achieve the desired outcomes?

· What potential challenges might you need to address to best implement the interprofessional strategies and achieve the desired outcomes?

Remember, the evidence you cite should be no more than five years old.

Address Generally Throughout Both Parts

Construct concept map and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information and links.

Is your concept map clearly presented?

Are the links between the evidence and your diagnostic, treatment, or other care decisions clear and justified?

Is your writing in both the concept map and the narrative clear and professional?

Is your writing free from errors?

Is your narrative submission 2–3 pages (not including the title page and reference list)?

Are you communicating in an ethical way?

· Are you communicating honestly?

Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Did you use 3–5 sources in your assessment?

· Are the sources you used no more than five years old?

Are your sources cited in APA format throughout the concept map and narrative?

Have you included an attached reference list?

Did you use the APA Paper Template for the proper formatting and to include a running head and title page?

· No abstract is needed for this assessment.

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Engage with a Vila Health scenario and then create a concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for a patient.

Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you should complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

The biopsychosocial (BPS) approach to care is a way to view all aspects of a patient's life. It encourages medical practitioners to take into account not only the physical and biological health of a patient, but all considerations like mood, personality, and socioeconomic characteristics. This course will also explore aspects of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment (the three Ps) as they relate to specific conditions, diseases, or disorders.

The first assessment is one in which you will create a concept map to analyze and organize the treatment of a specific patient with a specific condition, disease, or disorder.

The purpose of a concept map is to visualize connections between ideas, connect new ideas to previous ideas, and to organize ideas logically. Concept maps can be an extremely useful tool to help organize and plan care decisions. This is especially true in the biopsychosocial model of health, which takes into account factors beyond just the biochemical aspects of health. By utilizing a concept map, a nurse can simplify the connection between disease pathways, drug interactions, and symptoms, as well as between emotional, personality, cultural, and socioeconomic considerations that impact health.

Professional Context

The purpose of a concept map is to visualize connections between ideas, connect new ideas to previous ideas, and to organize ideas logically. Concept maps can be an extremely useful tool to help organize and plan care decisions. This is especially true in the context of the biopsychosocial model, which takes into account factors beyond just the biochemical aspects of health. By utilizing a concept map, a nurse can simplify the connection between disease pathways, drug interactions, and symptoms, as well as between the emotional, personality, cultural, and socioeconomic considerations that impact health.

Scenario

You have already learned about evidence-based practice and quality improvement initiatives in previous courses. You will use this information to guide your assessments, while also implementing new concepts introduced in this course. For this assessment, you will engage in the Vila Health: Using Concept Maps for Diagnosis scenario, develop a concept map, and provide supporting evidence and explanations.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will develop a concept map and a short narrative that supports and further explains how the concept map is constructed. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your evidence-based plan addresses all of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Concept Map scoring guide and  Guiding Questions: Concept Map [DOCX]  Download Guiding Questions: Concept Map [DOCX] to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

Part 1: Concept Map

· Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes for acute and chronic stages for a patient with renal failure related to diabetes in both an acute care facility and in the community.

· You can achieve this by following the Vila Health scenario.

· You will have a total of two concept maps. One will show the acute care facility with three diagnoses, and the other will show a home health community setting with three diagnoses.

Part 2: Additional Evidence (Narrative)

· Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your concept maps.

· Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to the achievement of desired outcomes.

· Construct the concept maps and linkage to additional evidence in a way that facilitates a reader's understanding of key information and links. This will be done by adding links in each section of the concept map that will show your value, relevance, and evidence.

· Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Submission Requirements

· Length of submission: Each concept map should be on a single page, if at all possible. You will add links to each section of your concept map for additional evidence and narratives that support your concept maps.

· Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your concept map, decisions made regarding care, and interprofessional strategies. Resources should be no more than five years old.

· APA formatting:

· For the concept map portion of this assessment, format resources and citations according to current APA style. Please include references both in-text and in the reference page that follows your narrative.

· For the narrative portion of this assessment: An  APA Template Tutorial [DOCX]  is provided to help you in writing and formatting your analysis. You do not need to include an abstract for this assessment.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Design patient-centered, evidence-based, advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality patient outcomes.

· Develop an evidence-based concept map that illustrates a plan for achieving high-quality outcomes at the acute and chronic stage for a patient with renal failure related to diabetes in both an acute care facility and in the community.

· Justify the value and relevance of the evidence used as the basis for a concept map.

· Competency 4: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional care systems in achieving desired health care improvement outcomes.

· Analyze how interprofessional strategies applied to the concept map can lead to achievement of desired outcomes.

· Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

· Create links within each section of the concept map for any additional evidence in a way that facilitates understanding of key information.

· Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations within the concept map and references using current APA style.