Assignment

Emil Mowry is a 62-year-old single, Latino rancher who did not complete high school. He remembers rolling his first cigarette when
he was 11 years old. He does not remember ever wanting to quit smoking. For the last five years he has had increasing difficulty
breathing. Emil was diagnosed by his Family Nurse Practitioner as having emphysema. He was told that he has Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD). He did not ask his Nurse Practitioner what this means, but he plans to look it up on the Internet.
The purpose of this assignment is to create an evidence-based patient-centered educational brochure on the pathophysiology and
clinical manifestations of, and common treatment options for COPD that could be used by Nurse Practitioners or Nurse Educators
with their patients who arenewly-diagnosed with this disorder. The proposed brochure should include graphics and citations from your
textbook and the external, scholarly-practice literature.
You may present the content in the electronic format of your choice: single sheet, folded, tri-fold. In other words, you may use MS
Word Document, MS Publisher, or any other software to develop your educational brochure. Since your audience will be patients,
please keep in mind the literacy and numeracy level. Also, please refer to the Assignment Rubric below for grading criteria and to help
you complete this assignment.