NR 511 Week 3 SNAPPS Written Assignment Template; Dizziness & Giddiness
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. Thirdly, it is important to have a Differential Diagnosis Based on the specific symptoms that the client is exhibiting; one of which is headache and its location, duration of headache; characteristics of the headache, and relieving and aggravating factors. The OLDCART was used to gather the data and key findings to obtain the differential diagnosis for headache; it could have been the following: Migraine, cluster, tension-type, and secondary causes of dizziness, but the key symptom that differentiated the rest of the possible differential diagnosis was that the patient did not have auras, and the location of the headache was frontal and occipital area. These two key findings ruled out the rest of the types of headaches, finalizing Tension-type headaches as this patient’s diagnosis (Goadsby and Dodick, 2022). The main issue while being a novice Nurse Practitioner is to find another differential diagnosis with possible key findings, and this will come with experience. With the help of my preceptor and clinical experiences, I will get better at correctly diagnosing my clients. REFERENCES Bhattacharyya, N. et al. (2021). "Clinical practice guideline: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (update)." Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 156. Goadsby, P. J., & Dodick, D. W. (2022). Headaches and dizziness: Diagnostic approaches and
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