Patient: Don Adkins Age: 58 Gender: Male Chief Complaint: Shortness of Breath
Case Objectives:
1. To form a trusting, caring therapeutic alliance
2. To use open-ended questions
3. To begin to formulate a differential diagnosis and center questions around a symptom
👤 Case 2: Stomach Pain
Patient: Adrian Joseph Age: 32 Gender: Female Chief Complaint: Stomach Pain
Case Objectives:
1. Elicit the details of the patient’s pain using the dimensions of a symptom.
2. Elicit the emotional component of the worries associated with having a new symptom.
2. Express understanding and support toward any fear that the patient may be experiencing using the NURSE model.