For this 5-6 page assignment, you will conduct a focused health history and physical assessment based upon your Practice Experience work in Shadow Health. Particularly, you will complete a focused assessment on Danny Rivera, 8 years old, a child who is complaining of a cough. Please submit your summary documentation in MS Word. Use the submission parameters and rubric below to guide you in completion of this written assignment.

Submission Parameters:

For this written assignment, please use the following guidelines and criteria. Also, please refer to the rubric for point allocation and assignment expectations. The expected length of the paper is approximately 5-6pages, which does not include the cover page and reference page(s). Please synthesize your assessment data rather than sharing all of the data in your written work. Your final written paper should be an APA formatted analysis of your assessment no more than 6 pages in length, excluding title page & reference list.

1. Introduction (including purpose statement)

2. Focus of the assessment

1. Describe the focus of this particular assessment on the patient complaining of a cough

3. Subjective Component

3. Analyze the health history data accumulated, including, but not limited to the Review of Systems & Past Medical History.

1. Objective Component

4. Analyze the physical examination findings including techniques of examination

1. Documented evidence to support clinical reasoning (connecting the assessment data to the diagnoses)

5. Choose & list the differential diagnoses based upon the clinical evidence

1. Plan of care

6. Briefly describe the plan of care individualized to findings, life-span stage of development with culturally specific considerations for the focused area of assessment.

1. Conclusion

1. References

In regard to APA format, please use the following as a guide:

· Include a cover page and running head (this is not part of the 4-5 pages limit)

· Include transitions in your paper (i.e. headings or subheadings)

· Use in-text references throughout the paper

· Use double space, 12 point Times New Roman font

· Apply appropriate spelling, grammar, and organization

· Include a reference list (this is not part of the 4-5 pages limit)

· Attempt to use primary sources only. That said, you may cite reliable electronic sources (i.e. NCSBN, AANP)