NR507 Week 2 Discussion: Choose Your Own Pathophysiology Adventure, Part 1 of 3

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?

SOLUTION

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a. Selected condition: Heart Disease
Heart disease encompasses disorders that impair the heart’s structure or function, including coronary heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, and valvular disease. In everyday practice it intersects with common risk clusters such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity, and tobacco exposure. Because it drives acute events like myocardial infarction and stroke and imposes high chronic morbidity, effective prevention, early detection, and risk-factor control are………………….please purchase the entire solution at $10 only