1. Describe your interests and expertise in the nursing field, along with your chosen specialization.
My interests and expertise in the nursing field include mainly in adult population, age ranging from 18 and above. All my experience has been in adult medical intensive care unit. To learn how any disease state, its patho-physiological changes and how these cellular level changes can make a person debilitated and can be life threatening, has always been my curiosity.
2. Choose the age range that you are most interested in researching throughout the course. Post your first and second choice for age range, or indicate if you are open to any age range. The age ranges are listed below:
Birth–12 years.
12–18 years.
18–65 years.
Over 65 years.
I would be interested in researching on age range 18-65 years of age mainly.
3. Choose the disease process, clinical problem or condition that you are most interested in focusing on for this course, and post it in this discussion.
I am interested in diabetes mellitus type-II and how this disease process slowly starts, mostly around 30-50 years of age and can be a precursor to other disease conditions. Now a days, with lot of changes in the environment, stress, food and lifestyle changes diabetes has affected a large population, no matter what race, and is still rampant on its way. I would love to learn how integrative medicine will play a role in controlling this disease state and there by helping our current and next generations in controlling and preventing them to be affected by this disease condition.