Reference no: EM133280464

Elizabeth Stevenson presents to your clinic with sharp pain in her left foot. You can visibly see swelling and redness in the ankle and foot. She tells you that she fractured her left ankle last year playing basketball but has not had time to attend physical therapy as prescribed. She also states that she is supposed to wear a therapeutic ankle sprain prescribed to her a year ago but has not kept up with it. Over the past three months, the pain and swelling have worsened.

The doctor chooses to schedule an MRI instead of an x-ray. The doctor then splints the foot and asks you to provide patient education.

Address the following points based on this scenario:

Based on the patient's history of the foot and ankle injury, why do you suppose the doctor ordered an MRI over an x-ray?

Consider what you would teach the patient, and then discuss how to document the patient education in her Electronic Health Record.