Clinical Simulation: Nursing Assessment in Post-Angioplasty Care

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The paper outline the case study of Mr Harry Bright who was suffering from angina and
because of this he has underwent angioplasty. The paper highlights the assessment done by the
nurse during clinical simulation further also deals about assessment which needs to be done by
them.
Nursing assessment done by nurse in process of simulation:
In reference with the critical evaluation of nursing care given to the patient post
angioplasty, following assessment conducted by the nurse are correct.
 During the simulation process, nurse have done pain assessment by providing effective
medication Nitroglycerin. Patient who has undergone angioplasty generally tends to have
chest pain due to failure in flow of oxygenated blood in heart, which need to be assessed
by the nurse. Nitroglycerin is one of the effective medicine as it is known to increase the
flow of blood into the heart. It also reduces the resistance of vascular vessel in heart
therefore the passage of oxygenated blood takes places efficiently. Moreover,
administration of such medicine is used to control the blood pressure in heart hence,
reduce the occurrence of ischemia stroke in patient who have undergone angioplasty
(Pragani et al., 2017).
 Second assessment done by the nurse was observing the physical functioning of the body.
ECG, Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate was noted by the nurse during the simulation of
patient. It is important to monitor the functioning of heart as this will reduce the chance
of ischemia stroke. ECG gives the information of systole and diastole of the heart and
reveal the status of blood flow into it (Sinha et al., 2017). Monitoring of Blood Pressure
and Pulse Rate will say about the rate at which the blood is flowing into the heart and

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reduce the chance of stroke. All such information taken was communicated to the doctor
for proper evaluation.
Nursing assessment not done by nurse in process of simulation:
1. Nurse has not conducted any kind of neurological assessment of the patient. From the
study of Foreman and Harrigan (2016) it is said that person who has undergone
angioplasty have neurological complication, functioning of sense organ is impaired due
to hypoperfusion during the surgery. It is important for nurse to perform an assessment of
neurological changes in order to avoid occurrence of ischemia stroke and problem in
sense organ.
 Nurse has not made any assessment for sign and symptoms of arrhythmias just after the
angioplasty. Sharif and Alway (2016) has recognized in their paper that person who have
undergone angioplasty, tends to develop irregular rhythm of sinus in heart and low
cardiac output. Due to the above complication, patient may suffer from myocardial
infraction. Therefore, it is significant for nurse to the evaluate the cardiac output and
hemodynamic instability (Rhim et al., 2016).
 Sebaaly (2016) in his paper recognized the importance of strict monitoring of patient for
minimum period of 15 min in order to determine the hemodynamic status of heart,
hematoma. It is essential to avoid any kind of surgical anastomoses. Nurse has not
monitored the patient soon after the surgery. The observation will circumvent the chance
of ischemia stroke in patient.
 Nurse has not made any puncture site assessment to check the risk of bleeding,
hematoma, or ecchymosis. For patient who has undergone angioplasty, may suffers from
bleeding from the site of puncture which causes redness, pain or swelling. As the mean of