This document outlines a pediatric nursing assignment for DePaul University’s NSG 441 course, Infant, Child and Adolescent Nursing. It centers around a virtual simulation case study featuring a 5-year-old patient, Brittany Long, who has a history of sickle cell disease and presents with a vaso-occlusive crisis.
This assignment is designed for students to practice and demonstrate their clinical reasoning, assessment, and documentation skills within a safe, simulated environment. It’s likely used to prepare students for real-world patient care scenarios involving pediatric patients with chronic conditions.
This assignment requires students to document a patient history, focused assessment findings, key nursing diagnoses, and the nursing care provided, along with the patient’s response as recorded in the vSim feedback log. The document *includes* the patient’s initial presentation, vital signs, assessment data, and a log of interactions within the virtual simulation. It *does not* include completed nursing care plans, detailed rationales for diagnoses, or a full analysis of the simulation experience – those are components students will develop and submit separately.