Patient Diagnosis help

[kristen5500]

I have a 76 yr old female patient with shortness of breath, fainting spells, a resting pulse rate of 30 BPM, and a blood pressure of 125/82. I cannot figure out a diagnosis for this patient! Please give any advice or information on what the patient's pathology may be! Thank you! (this is just a simulation we are doing in class, there is no actual patient in danger!)

[KrCmommy522, BSN, RN]

why is it that very few students actually follow up on their requests for help? granted, it's only been 2 days so maybe the OPs get busy... but I've noticed this as a general trend. :)

It is...I Think there is a percentage that want the care plan written for them. Here at AN we don't give answers...we help the student who actively participates. The goal of AN is to help students become the best nurse they can be. We don't give answers.

Agreed!! Too many people post on here with their pt info, absolutely no thoughts of their own as to what the answer, or diagnoses, interventions, etc. are. Then, good people take their time to respond to the OP, asking questions and trying to get the OP to give more info and think about the question or pt, and the OP never responds! The only reason I ever came up with for people doing it was they expected people to just post answers, and when they didn't get that, they just thought - "Well, forget this! I'm not going to do more work by responding! I guess I'll figure out something else!" SMH!

[KrCmommy522, BSN, RN]

Because someone will eventually come along and start giving them the answers (AEB this thread).

Hahaha! Very true too!! I have noticed that most people on here are pretty good about not responding with the answers, they try to get the person to think for themselves and come up with it on there own, with a little help from others on here. But, there are quite a few times were people just end up posting the answers! Like this time!