Reflect on a patient who presented with postpartum depression during your Practicum Experience. Describe the patient’s personal and medical history, drug therapy and treatments, and follow-up care.

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  1. Reflect on a patient who is beyond 20 weeks gestation and presented with a health problem that commonly arises during pregnancy. Describe the patient’s personal and medical history, drug therapy and treatments, and follow-up care. Then, explain the implications of the patient’s health problem.
  2. Reflect on a patient who presented with postpartum depression during your Practicum Experience. Describe the patient’s personal and medical history, drug therapy and treatments, and follow-up care. Then, explain the implications of the patient’s postpartum depression, including how this might impact the entire family unit.

3.Reflect on a patient who presented with a cardiovascular disorder during your Practicum Experience. Describe the patient’s personal and medical history, drug therapy and treatments, and follow-up care. Then, explain how the patient’s gender might have impacted or influenced her care.

What details did the patient provide regarding or her personal and medical history?

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With this patient in mind, address the following in a SOAP Note:

Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding or her personal and medical history?

Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment?

Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis and why?

Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies? Include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.

Reflection notes: What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?

How did the symptoms affect the subjects life? What effects developed daily: in work, relationships, school, daily functioning?

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A brief history of the subject, including nuclear and extended family and the influence of these relationships; social, academic, medical, and behavioral history. Anything that might be relevant to his/her disorder.

2.When the disorder began in his/her life. What was going on in his/her life at that time?

3.What are/were the symptoms? Be specific (dont just say, he was depressed). List the symptoms in detail, including their severity and consistency.

4.How did the symptoms affect the subjects life? What effects developed daily: in work, relationships, school, daily functioning?

5.What treatments, if any, did the subject receive?

6.How do you believe his/her history suggests a cause for the disorder? How do you link the pieces of the history to the specific symptoms of the disorder? Here you will have to think hard and be creativejust like a clinical psychologist!

7.If you were treating this subject, what form of clinical intervention/therapeutic technique would you recommend or suggest from the ones studied in this class? Why? Be specific here too (Dont just say, I think counseling would be good because it helps with depression).

Describe how your experiences working with, talking to, or observing physicians, PA’s or NP’s have convinced you that the PA profession is the right health care role for you.

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Applying to a Physician’s Assistant Program

Sorry about the long description, they have several questions to answer.

– Medic in the Army

– Wanted to include my respond to house fires while in the Red Cross as a story that inspires my vounteerism

  1. Describe how your experiences working with, talking to, or observing physicians, PA’s or NP’s have convinced you that the PA profession is the right health care role for you.

Worked with several PA’s with strong background in volunteering, showing passion for helping the underserved communities. Compassion for their patients and liked working under multiple specialities during their career (one worked under as Emergency Medicine then switched to orthopedics)

  1. What are the biggest challenges you face in returning to school, and what will you contribute to your MEDEX classmates?

Biggest challenge and excitement includes coming back to structured learning environment, I have been taking independent learning courses and learning through the clinic for several years.

My contributions to MEDEX include my vast military experience, volunteer experience with the Red Cross, and having be able to act at the level of an independent medical provider in austere environments that may provide some insight

  1. Do you believe your academic history accurately reflects your ability to successfully complete PA school? Please explain.