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PURPOSE: This assignment is risk assessment of a health condition that is not covered in the course. It will allow for the expansion of knowledge and the ability to determine health behaviors which may decrease risk for disease development.

COURSE OUTCOMES

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1. Explain the pathophysiologic processes of select health conditions.

2. Predict clinical manifestations and complications of select disease processes

3. Correlate lifestyle, environmental, and other influences with changes in levels of wellness.

REQUIREMENTS:

Please select a disease process from any of the body systems that are covered in this course or the hematologic or reproductive systems.

PREPARING THE PAPER:

Describe lifestyle, genetic, environmental, cultural, age, gender and other risk factors for the selected disease. Identify if these risk factors are modifiable or non-modifiable. Discuss health promotion/disease prevention activities to alter the modifiable risk factors. Discuss ways that nurses or other health providers would use this information. Use literature to support your statements. This paper should be 3-5 pages in length and follow APA writing style.

DIRECTIONS

Comprehensively describes ALL elements for the selected disease.

• Lifestyle

• Genetic

• Environmental

• Cultural

• Age

• Gender, and

• Other risk factors

ALL resources are current (within 5 years) and relevant to the specified disease topic.

28-30 points

modifiable.

Rationale provided support categorization of ALL risk factors.

10 points

Identifies 3 or more health promotion and/or disease prevention activities the individual can participate in to alter identified risk factor(s).

Evidence based rationale from current resources support ALL activities to alter risk factors.

14-15 points

Comprehensively addresses how nurses and other health professionals would use the information derived from the risk assessment.

Comprehensively discusses how the professional’s understanding of the pathophysiologic process is applied in this assignment.

ALL resources are current (within 5 years) and relevant to the specified disease topic.

19-20 points

References are submitted with assignment.

• Citations and references are listed using appropriate APA format (6th ed.) and are free of errors.

• Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.

5 points

Summary posted contains accurate information about ALL elements:

• Risk factors

• Modifiable/non-modifiable risk factors

• Measures to alter risk factors

• Use of risk factors by nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Posts a short summary in the Module 6 discussion tab by due date.

19-20 points