NUR231 Assessment: Jolene is a 33-year-old woman living with her husband on a cattle farm in Dalby. She presents to the Dalby emergency department complaining of a racing heart, palpitations, shortness of breath and a headache. On examination Jolene has Tachycardia, Tachypnoea, Angina, Hypertension, anxiety and tremor.

Q1. Explain these terms and provide examples of what observation data could be charted to represent these signs and symptoms (200 words)

You are the emergency nurse.

Q2. What immediate action would you take to assess and monitor these signs and symptoms? (150 words)

Jolene’s medical record discloses that she has had several earlier admission’s for asthma since she was an adolescent.

Q3. Explain the pathophysiology of Asthma (300 words)

This assessment task must:

• Be a written academic response to the case scenario provided as Task 2 on the NUR231 Blackboard.
• Use the template provided on Blackboard.
• Use Times New Roman font, size 12 with 1.5 line spacing
• Adhere to the word limit (+/-10%)
• Use Harvard referencing style

Be submitted by the due date in an electronic format as a PDF document via SafeAssign

The goal of this task is to integrate and apply knowledge of pathophysiology and safe administration of medication to a patient scenario. This will also incorporate your creative and critical thinking in the application to the patient scenario. You will consider the professional, ethical and legal codes, and practice standards relevant to decision making and safe medication practice.