Activities of Living in Bronchiolitis Patients

Running head: ACTIVITIES OF LIVING
Activities of Living
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Abstract
This assignment will focus on the activities of living based identified in the case study which
are breathing and body temperature which takes the form of a fever in the patient. The paper
will provide an overview of the symptoms associated with these two activities in bronchiolitis
patients and how the symptoms can be treated. A nursing care plan will then be developed to
identify a healthcare issue related to either breathing or body temperature after a plan,
strategies and evaluation will be performed.

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Introduction
Bronchiolitis is a respiratory infection and it is one of the leading causes of
hospitalization for children two years and under. Viruses such as influenza and rhinovirus
have been known to cause bronchiolitis with respiratory synctial virus (RSV) being the most
common cause (Friedman, Rieder & Walton, 2014). Activities of living are a concept
developed in 1980 by Roper, Logan and Tierney in the United Kingdom to be used as a
nursing model to understand patients in terms of the activities they perform in daily life
(Williams, 2015).
The Roper, Logan, Tierney model identified twelve activities of living which were
used to assess an individual’s independence based on a continuum of complete dependence to
absolute independence (Snowden, Donnell & Duffy, 2010). These twelve activities include;
elimination, sleeping, eating and drinking, breathing, mobilization, controlling body
temperature, communication, work and play, maintaining a safe environment, expression of
sexuality, bathing and dressing, death (Snowden, Donnell & Duffy, 2010).
This assignment will focus on the activities of living based on the case study which
are breathing and controlling body temperature of the patient who is an 18 month old child.
The paper will provide an overview of how these two activities are affected, how the patient
will be assessed with relation to the activities and how the symptoms can be treated. A
nursing care plan will be developed to identify one healthcare issue after which a plan and
strategies will be formulated to address this issue and evaluation will be done to determine if
the goal was met.