Clinical Reasoning Cycle: PDF

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Clinical Reasoning Cycle: PDF

Added on 2021-05-27

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Running head: CASE STUDY OF LEONARDCASE STUDY OF LEONARDName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:

1CASE STUDY OF LEONARDIntroduction:Clinical reasoning cycle helps professionals to identify the condition of the patients, theirsymptoms and thereby process the information to identify the care priorities. Accordingly,interventions are set for peeving bets quality care to patients helping them to come back to theirnormal lives (Vanderberg et al. 2017). In this assignment, clinical reasoning cycle andassessment tools would be used identify the care priorities of the patient named Leonardo andinterventions would be given to them accordingly.Clinical reasoning cycle and identification of three health risk factors:Considering the patient situation:Leoonard is a 73-year-old man who is admitted to the emergency department in the acutecare ward after he had a fall in the local shops. The presenting symptoms that were noticed werebruises on face and hip region, low body weight, mild confusion and low body weight. He isunable to cope with his present condition and is seen by a social worker at home.Collecting cues and information:When medical history of Leonard is documented, it is seen that he has mild cognitiveimpairment that is secondary to Alzheimer’s disease. It is also seen that he has a decubitus ulceron his left leg, arthritis in his back, anaemia, mild hypotension and industrial deafness. He alsohas urinary incontinence. He has already fallen twice in the last six months and he is also facinghuge issues in coping up with the situations. He is unable to conduct his daily activities likecooking, cleaning, self-care and other activities.

2CASE STUDY OF LEONARDProcessing the information:With gradual aging, his mobility has degraded and this had exposed him to risks offalling. He had already fallen twice although severe fractures had not taken place before the lastfall at the shop. Secondly, he has been suffering from mild cognitive impairment secondary toAlzheimer’s that might aggravate if not treated properly resulting him in complete loss ofcognitive ability and hence may result him to live poor quality life. Moreover, he is also seen tohave issues with coping with his home chore activities and activities of daily life. Researchersare of the opinion that mild cognitive development affects the self care activities of humanbeings making them more dependent on others for their personal hygiene and regular activities oflife (Stam et al. 2016). He is not being able to clean, cook, self-care, not being able to performhis favourite activities like gardening and many others. Moreover, he is anaemic and decreasedbody weight. This is actually making him tired, he is not feeling to work, and therefore he issleeping throughout the day. All these had resulted in very poor quality life. Identification of the problems and issues:From the above analysis, different important risk factors are identified in case ofLeonardo. The first one is that he is highly prone to fall due to loss of motor functioning due toaging procedures. The second risk factor is that he has mild cognitive impairment where he isexposed at the risk of noticeable as well as measurable decline in memory and thinking skills thatwould affect his daily life (Webster et al. 2016). The third health risk factor that is identified ishis anaemic conditions and low body weight that is making him lethargic and sleepy throughoutthe day. This would make him suffer from shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, and

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