Assignment Task

Intent: This assessment task aims to develop your ability to perform a comprehensive physical and/or psychological assessment and articulate advanced diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills to formulate differential diagnoses and a management plan in consultation with the patient, their family/significant others, and the interdisciplinary team.

Objective(s): This assessment task addresses subject learning objective(s): A, B, C, D, E and F

This assessment task contributes to the development of graduate attribute(s): 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0

Type: Case Study

Task: You are to present a case report of a complex (i.e. complex single system or a multi-system illness) patient that represents a patient/client within your clinical practice (All students must discuss the suitability of your selected patient with your tutor preceding the due date). Students are to frame the report in a formal academic writing style, which includes writing in the third person and use of an essay-structured format, and must include the following information:

Identify your role and the patient (NB de-identify all patient information)

Discuss the subjective data collected in your patient interview, including the components covered in our modules; this may include the history of the presenting illness (including onset, provocation, quality, region, severity and duration, or site, onset, character, radiation, alleviating, timing exacerbation, severity) medical/surgical, medication history, allergies, social history, including occupation, travel, immunization, drug and alcohol, living arrangements/family, family history, cultural/spiritual considerations.

Explain the objective data from your assessment. This must include the body system(s) you have examined, the findings from your assessment, and the results of any additional diagnostic assessments undertaken (such as vital observations, ECG, spirometry, pathology, or imaging for example).

Using contemporary literature and relevant guidelines, provide rationales for your clinical impressions (potential diagnosis/diagnoses) for your patient assessment.

Create a management plan; including recommendations for evaluation and reassessment of your patient. This must include relevant evidence to justify your decision-making. Your case report must also provide an analysis of any adaptations to the assessment and treatment plan that would support and promote Indigenous Australians’ health beliefs.