Within the Shadow Health Platform, Complete the Focused Exam: Cough Results
Within the Shadow Health Platform, Complete the Focused Exam: Cough Results
Within the Shadow Health platform, complete the Focused Exam: Cough Results. The estimated average time to complete this assignment each time is 1 hour and 15 minutes. Please note, this is an average time. Some students may need longer.
This clinical experience is a focused exam. Students must score at the level of Proficiency in the Shadow Health Digital Clinical Experience. Students have three opportunities to complete this assignment and score at the Proficiency level. Upon completion, submit the lab pass through the assignment dropbox.
Within the Shadow Health platform, complete the Focused Exam: Cough Results
Students successfully scoring within the Proficiency level in the Digital Clinical Experience on the first attempt will earn a grade of 100 points; students successfully scoring at the Proficiency level on the second attempt will earn a grade of 90 points; and students successfully scoring at the Proficiency level on the third attempt will earn a grade of 80 points. Students who do not pass the performance-based assessment by scoring within the Proficiency level in three attempts will receive a failing grade (68 points).
If Proficiency is not achieved on the first attempt, it is recommended that you review your answers with the correct answers on the Experience Overview page. Review the report by clicking on each tab to the left titled Transcript, Subjective Data Collection, Objective Data Collection, Documentation, and SBAR to compare your work. Reviewing this overview and the course resources may help you improve your score.
Please review the assignment in the Health Assessment Student Handbook in Shadow Health prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.
A cough is a sudden, usually involuntary, expulsion of air from the lungs with a characteristic and easily recognizable sound. Although it is known as the most common symptom of respiratory disorders, it serves the functions of defending the respiratory tract against noxious substances and maintaining airway patency by removing excessive secretions from the air passages. Expectoration or sputum production is the act of coughing up and spitting out the material produced in the respiratory tract.
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Technique
A careful history, the most helpful task in the evaluation of patients with cough, will suggest the diagnosis of its cause in most instances. If the cough is not a part of the patients presenting symptoms, its presence or absence should be determined by pointed questions not only directed to the patient but also to the spouse or other family members, as the patient may be unaware of a cough or may underestimate its frequency and duration. For example, it is not uncommon for patients with chronic bronchitis to be oblivious to their frequent coughing, while people around them are quite annoyed by it. Some patients may perceive their cough as throat clearing. Many times, the truth about the patients cough reveals itself to the observer during the interview and physical examination.
Once it is acknowledged that the patient has a cough, adequate information about its characteristics and circumstances should be obtained by appropriate questioning:
