Trach Care

JOINT PROJECT ASSIGNMENT

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION

Each group will be assigned particular joint disorder as their topic.

This assignment is broken into 3 parts, as listed below and described on the following pages.

PART DUE DATE POINTS INFO IN THIS PACKET

Part A: Joint disorder preliminary plan 03/12/2015 10 points see page 2

Part B: Joint disorder poster presentation 03/19/2015 75 points see pages 3-4

Part C: Evaluations 04/02/2015 15 points see pages 5-8

100 points

PART A: PRELIMINARY PLAN (10 points)

This work should be typed and double –spaced. Head your work with the names of all group members, instructor’s name, due date, and “Joint Project Part A – preliminary plan.”

Go through the following steps 1-3 to complete Part A. Number each item on the page so that it can easily be found and evaluated.

The purpose of writing this plan is to prompt your group to do some preliminary research to get a sense of your material before you dive and assign sections to each group member to complete for the final project. Use this Part A to help your group organize thoughts and ideas. Be very thorough; brief, shallow answers will result in a low score.

1) Our chosen topic is:

2) For each of the items in the following list, write 2-3 sentences that briefly summarize what is going on in the joint disorder you are researching. It would be wise to cite your sources here, so that you can go back and get more information when you are doing Part B (I won’t be specifically checking for in-text citation in this section, but it will help you out if you do it here).

a. Nature of the involved joint – what bones and muscles are involved in the joint?

b. Etiology – what is the root cause of the disorder in the first place?

c. Pathophysiology – what is happening to bring about the signs and symptoms of the disorder?

d. Treatment and prognosis – what are the proscribed treatments for this disorder? What outcome should be...