Week 5 discussion

Examining Chest X-Rays

Chest x-rays are an invaluable diagnostic tool as they can
help identify common respiratory disorders such as pneumonia, pleural effusion,
and tumors, as well as cardiovascular disorders such as an enlarged heart and
heart failure. As an advanced practice nurse, it is important that you are able
to differentiate a normal x-ray from an abnormal x-ray in order to identify
these disorders. The ability to articulate the results of a chest x-ray with
the physician, radiologist, and patient is an essential skill when facilitating
care in a clinical setting. In this Discussion, you practice your
interprofessional collaboration skills as you interpret chest x-rays and
exchange feedback with your colleagues.

Consider the four patient x-rays (Note: By Day 1 of this
week, your Instructor will assign you to post on one of these x-rays):

X-ray 1

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image for X-ray 1.

X-ray 2:

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X-ray 3:

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X-ray 4:

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To prepare:

Review Part 10 of the Buttaro et al. text in this week’s
Learning Resources, as well as the provided x-rays.

Reflect on what you see in the x-ray assigned to you by the
Course Instructor.

Consider whether the patient in your assigned x-ray has an
enlarged heart, enlarged blood vessels, fluid in the lungs, and/or pneumonia in
the lungs.

Post on or before Day 3 a description of what you see in
your assigned patient x-ray. Then, explain whether the patient has an enlarged
heart, enlarged blood vessels, fluid in the lungs, and/or pneumonia in the
lungs.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.

Respond on or before Day 6 to at least two of your
colleagues on two different days who were assigned different x-rays than you by
providing additional observations and insights.

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