Nursing Assessment for Post-operative Patients and IV Therapy

Case Study

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Consider what nursing assessments you as a RN will undertake for patients immediately post
operatively with rationale.......................................................................................................1
Consider what nursing assessments you as a RN will undertake for a patient on IV therapy
with rationales........................................................................................................................3
As your shift is ending, hand over your patient to the night duty nurse using the ISOBAR
framework...............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
Nursing assessment refer to set of diagnosing procedures and methods to identify health
problems and its causes accurately. It includes evaluate symptoms and causes behind specific
disease which facilitate to make establish accurate decision making of treatment (Vetter and et.
al., 2017). The nursing assessment plays an important role to deliver effective post-operative care
to an individual. In context of this assignment, it is based on the case study of Mr Oliver
Thompson who gets admitted with confirmed ruptured appendix and face an emergency open
appendectomy surgical operation. This report will focus on nursing assessment for patient
immediately post operatively and IV therapy along with its rationales. It will also include the
symptoms and causes of specific health problem occurred with selected individual. The
utilisation of ISOBAR framework to handover patient to nigh duty nurse is given below.
Main Body
Consider what nursing assessments you as a RN will undertake for patients immediately post
operatively with rationale.
According the given case study, it has been analysed that patient has been suffering from the
problem related to appendix for which an emergency surgical procedure has been carried out. It
is observed that appendectomy was conducted in emergency because situation of patient is
extremely critical as he was with ruptured appendix confirmed condition. Basically, the patient
was with intravenous cannula (IVC) in-situ, on his right cubital fossa (CF), which is connected to
Intravenous (IV) Normal Saline, running at a rate of 120mls/hour. It has been evaluated that
condition of Mr Oliver Thompson is very complicated due to which physicians were decided to
conducting surgery immediately. It includes the fact that patient need extra care and monitoring
for some of days in order to make then wellbeing (Neto and et. al., 2016). However, it is
necessary for nursing staff to remain extra careful and dedicated towards patient for maintain
their stable condition of health respectively.
The nursing assessment is required immediately post operatively to ensure the stability of
condition of Mr Oliver Thompson so that appropriate care services can be provided. It includes
to conduct diagnosing procedures to evaluate the actual needs of patient after surgery in order to
keep under observation for few days for 24*7 to make sure about stable condition of them.
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