Geriatric: 65+
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Acute Renal Failure
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 43 - Keola Akana - Acute Renal Failure - on the Elsevier Evolve Platform. Keola Akana is a 70-year-old male with a history of heart failure. He was admitted to the med-surg unit for medication adjustment, monitoring, and cardiac rehabilitation. During this...
Acute Renal Failure
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 43 - Keola Akana - Acute Renal Failure - on the Elsevier Evolve Platform. Keola Akana is...
Aggressive Behavior Management for Dementia Patient
DymstecA 79-year-old elderly woman with dementia has been unable to adjust to the three-person room at the nursing hospital for three weeks and is showing aggressive behaviors such as screaming and swearing. She is able to communicate easily with an MMSE score of 15/30, but she is angry with her...
A 79-year-old elderly woman with dementia has been unable to adjust to the three-person room at the nursing hospital for three weeks and is showing...
Confusion in Older Adult
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 02 - Bernadette Jackson - Confusion in Older Adult With Infection on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Bernadette Jackson is an 85-year-old African-American female who presented to the emergency department. After placing an indwelling catheter, the patient was admitted to the inpatient medical...
Confusion in Older Adult
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 02 - Bernadette Jackson - Confusion in Older Adult With Infection on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Bernadette...
COPD Home Health Visit
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario COM 01 - Wallace Peterson - Home Health: COPD/Pneumonia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Wallace Peterson is a 69-year-old Caucasian male with a history of COPD who has had multiple hospitalizations for the treatment of bronchitis and pneumonia. He was referred to home...
COPD Home Health Visit
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario COM 01 - Wallace Peterson - Home Health: COPD/Pneumonia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Wallace Peterson is a...
Dementia
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario PSY 10 - Ri Liang - Dementia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Ri Liang is a 68-year-old Chinese male with a 2-year history of Alzheimer disease. He was admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit for evaluation and possible placement. Ri has increasing confusion...
Dementia
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario PSY 10 - Ri Liang - Dementia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Ri Liang is a 68-year-old Chinese...
Dependent Adult Assessment
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario PSY 12 - Gwen Harrison - Older Adult Abuse on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Gwen Harrison is an 84-year-old Caucasian female with a history of Parkinson disease. She was admitted to the inpatient medical-surgical unit as a direct admission with unresolved symptoms of...
Dependent Adult Assessment
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario PSY 12 - Gwen Harrison - Older Adult Abuse on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Gwen Harrison is an...
Depression
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario PSY 01 - Cecil Whitver - Depression on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Cecil Whitver is a 78-year-old African-American male with a history of depression diagnosed after the death of his wife 2 months ago. He was admitted to the inpatient medical-surgical unit and...
Depression
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario PSY 01 - Cecil Whitver - Depression on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Cecil Whitver is a 78-year-old African-American...
Diabetic Wound Care
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 07 - Carl Rogers - Diabetic Wound Care and Insulin Administration on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Carl Rogers is a 67-year-old African American male with a history of type I diabetes mellitus. He was directly admitted from his provider’s office to the...
Diabetic Wound Care
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 07 - Carl Rogers - Diabetic Wound Care and Insulin Administration on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Carl...
Elderly Man with Pneumonia
University of Nebraska Medical CenterA 68-year-old male with COPD is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia; the signout says he became more sick overnight. The learner must identify that the patient is in respiratory distress and begin interventions to treat him, including administering oxygen via nasal cannula or non-rebreather. The learner is expected to...
Elderly Man with Pneumonia
A 68-year-old male with COPD is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia; the signout says he became more sick overnight. The learner must identify that...
End-of-Life Care
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 03 - Samuel Green - End-of-Life Care on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Samuel Green is a 75-year-old Jewish male previously diagnosed with inoperable pulmonary adenocarcinoma. He became acutely ill after his last round of chemotherapy and his code status is do not...
End-of-Life Care
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 03 - Samuel Green - End-of-Life Care on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Samuel Green is a 75-year-old...
Fall in the Hospital
DymstecA 78-year-old woman with a history of a stroke is currently admitted with a GI bleed. The learner does a basic nursing assessment including a neurologic exam consistent with previous deficits related to the stroke and leaves the room. While they are absent the patient falls, which requires the learner...
A 78-year-old woman with a history of a stroke is currently admitted with a GI bleed. The learner does a basic nursing assessment including a...
Goals of Care Discussion
MaimonidesIn this scenario, a daughter brings her elderly father to the hospital because of respiratory distress. The patient has a history of advanced lung cancer, appears frail and very ill, and is in the emergency department requiring BIPAP for respiratory support. The learner must take the role of the emergency...
In this scenario, a daughter brings her elderly father to the hospital because of respiratory distress. The patient has a history of advanced lung cancer,...
Heart Failure
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 09 - Keola Akana - Heart Failure - Digoxin Toxicity & Hypokalemia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Keola Akana is a 70-year-old male with a history of heart failure. He was admitted to the medical-surgical unit for medication adjustment, monitoring, and cardiac...
Heart Failure
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 09 - Keola Akana - Heart Failure - Digoxin Toxicity & Hypokalemia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform...
Hip Fracture
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 37 - Susan Weil - Hip Fracture - Blood Transfusion on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Susan Weil is a 76-year-old Caucasian female with a history of hypertension and osteoporosis. After a fall, she was admitted to the medical-surgical unit for hemiarthroplasty. The...
Hip Fracture
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 37 - Susan Weil - Hip Fracture - Blood Transfusion on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Susan Weil...
Hip Fracture P.E.
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 38 - Susan Weil - Hip Fracture - Pulmonary Embolism on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Susan Weil is a 76-year-old white female with a history of hypertension and osteoporosis. After a fall, she was admitted to the medical-surgical unit for hemiarthroplasty. The...
Hip Fracture P.E.
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 38 - Susan Weil - Hip Fracture - Pulmonary Embolism on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Susan Weil...
Hip Fracture: Wound Infection
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 40 - Agnes Taylor - Hip Fracture - Wound Infection & Early Sepsis on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Agnes Taylor is an 81-year-old Caucasian female who suffered a fractured left hip and underwent an open reduction internal fixation (ORIF). She was progressing...
Hip Fracture: Wound Infection
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 40 - Agnes Taylor - Hip Fracture - Wound Infection & Early Sepsis on the Elsevier Evolve...
Home Health Visit Heart Failure
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario COM 03 - Bradly Wright - Home Health: Heart Failure on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Bradley Wright is a 67-year-old African-American male with a history of chronic heart failure. He has had multiple hospital admissions for heart failure. Home healthcare was referred after...
Home Health Visit Heart Failure
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario COM 03 - Bradly Wright - Home Health: Heart Failure on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Bradley Wright is...
Hospice Home Health Visit
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario COM 02 - Margaret Chan - Home Health: Hospice on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Margaret Chan is a 69-year-old Asian female diagnosed with advanced metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma 15 months ago. She has spinal metastases and has been referred to hospice for...
Hospice Home Health Visit
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario COM 02 - Margaret Chan - Home Health: Hospice on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Margaret Chan is a...
Lung Cancer
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 05 - Margaret Chan - Lung Cancer - Nausea & Hypokalemia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Margaret Chan is a 68-year-old Asian female diagnosed one year ago with advanced metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma. She was admitted to the medical-surgical unit for...
Lung Cancer
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 05 - Margaret Chan - Lung Cancer - Nausea & Hypokalemia on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Margaret...
Mobility and Elimination
University of Nebraska Medical CenterA 67-year-old male is admitted to the surgical ward after hip repair surgery and develops a clostridium difficile infection. The learner must put on proper personal protective equipment and perform an initial assessment, including a focused musculoskeletal exam. The learner should notice that the patient needs to be cleaned–including appropriate...
Mobility and Elimination
A 67-year-old male is admitted to the surgical ward after hip repair surgery and develops a clostridium difficile infection. The learner must put on proper...
Myocardial Infarction
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 11 - Melody Dixon - Myocardian Infarction - Management of Unstable Patient on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Melody Dixon, a 71-year-old African American female, presented to the emergency department with complaints of indigestion and back pain. Atypical presentation of myocardial infarction was...
Myocardial Infarction
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 11 - Melody Dixon - Myocardian Infarction - Management of Unstable Patient on the Elsevier Evolve Platform...
Pneumonia
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 02 - Wallace Peterson - Pneumonia With Acute Respiratory Distress Oxygen Delivery on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Wallace Peterson is a 69-year-old male with a 6-year history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who has been hospitalized for treatment of pneumonia. The scenario...
Pneumonia
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario MED 02 - Wallace Peterson - Pneumonia With Acute Respiratory Distress Oxygen Delivery on the Elsevier Evolve Platform...
Risk Assessment
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 05 - Lisa Rae - Fall and Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Lisa Rae, a 78-year-old Caucasian female, was admitted with complaints of dizziness following a fall at her assisted living facility. Mrs. Rae was found to be...
Risk Assessment
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario FUN 05 - Lisa Rae - Fall and Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Lisa...
Root Cause Analysis
ElsevierThis Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario LED 01 - Margaret Chan - Medication Error With Root Cause Analysis on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Margaret Chan is a 68-year-old Asian female diagnosed with advanced metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma one year ago. She was admitted to the medical-surgical unit for...
Root Cause Analysis
This Simulated Patient Encounter maps to Scenario LED 01 - Margaret Chan - Medication Error With Root Cause Analysis on the Elsevier Evolve Platform Margaret...