A 71-year-old female presents with a 5-day history of LLQ pain that she rates as severe at times. She denies nausea/vomiting. She has had changes in bowel pattern. The patient denies frank blood in stool. Identify two differential diagnoses you would propose. Include psychosocial, spiritual, emotional, economic, and developmental needs in your evaluation and plan for this patient. Support your answer with a minimum of two APRN-approved scholarly resources.
Acceptable Resources
Textbooks used in your courses
Care On Point
Peer-reviewed journal articles
CDC/WHO – content for clinicians
Clinical Practice Guidelines
UpToDate
Unacceptable Resources
Artificial Intelligence (ie Chatgpt)
WebMD
Emedicine.com
Dynamed
Medscape
No blogs or podcasts
Educational tools for patients
Mayo and Cleveland Clinic websites
Materials aimed at patients/public
References must be within 5 years