Case Study on nursing assignment pdf
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Case Study on nursing assignment pdf
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Running head: CASE STUDY 2CASE STUDY 2Name of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1CASE STUDY 2Clinical reasoning can be defined as the process by which nursing professionals cancollect cues and thereby process the information that have been collected. The nursingprofessional hence comes to an understanding of the problem or the situation of the patient that isvery helpful in planning as well as implementing interventions (Connolly & Lang, 2014). Thenursing professionals can thereby evaluate the outcomes after implementing the interventions,thereby reflect on, and learn from the entire procedures. This is called the critical thinkingprocess and this is entirely dependent upon the critical thinking disposition. Researchers are ofthe opinion that this skill of an individual is entirely influenced by his or her attitude,preconceptions, knowledge and philosophical perspectives. This ensures safe practices of thepatients ensuring best outcomes (Sarrafchi et al., 2016). This assignment will mainly be based onthe application of this cycle in a case study where the patient is suffering from Parkinson’sdisease. These will also show two important nursing priorities that the community nurses shouldtake to ensure best health of the patient.Philip is a 67 years old man who is semi-retired and is separated from his wife Klara. Hehas three children who have their own young families and lives on other cities. He works in alocal specialty tea store. Recently, he had been admitted to the healthcare center in theemergency ward and was later reviewed by a neurologist who confirmed Parkinson’s disease. Hewas admitted to the healthcare center with increasing tremor in the upper limb that as morepronounced in the right side. He was also going through a phase of global bradykinesia,increasing hypophonia. He was losing balance and felt numbness in his hands. He was feelingsleepy, tired during the day, and often seen to stand throughout the day to prevent himself fromsleeping. After admission to the healthcare center, the professional clinically examined him andtransferred him to the neurology department where the experts stated that he is diagnosed with
2CASE STUDY 2Parkinson’s diseases. CT and Pet scan was conducted to conduct differential diagnosis where noabnormalities were found. Hence, Parkinson’s disease was confirmed.From the entire observation and analysis of the situations, two important prioritieshad been identified in case of Phillip. He had two episodes of falling. He is also having problemswith maintaining balance. Moreover, he is also having issues with holding things and is thereforedropping things more often. Right hand tremor is more common when sitting down on bed. Allthese may create accidents if care is not taken to help him overcome such situations, thereforeone nursing priority would be to help him overcome this symptoms. Another issue that he is alsofacing is his emotional labiality. He is going through situations where he is being out ofproportion while emotionally reacting to small incidents. He is also feeling “blue” and sad as heis not having an emotionally stable and happy life for his both physical disorder and emotionaland mental situations due to his personal relationship tensions. Therefore, the nursing prioritywould be also to provide interventions to him by whom he would be emotionally stable andthereby lead a happy and emotionally stable life.The community nurse needs to decide what goals are to be set for the patient andaccordingly they need to set interventions by which the goals would be achieved. These wouldensure proper management of the disorder and helping the patients to lead a quality life.Therefore, the community nurses should introduce interventions which would help him inmaintaining is functional mobility and effective control of emotions. The community nurse should have clear ideas about how loss of mobility of the patientcan affect him in his regular lives resulting him to lead a poor quality life. As he has become lessmobile, there is a high chance of the patient gaining weight. Therefore, the community nurse
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