Coordinating Care for a Patient with Osteoporosis: A Case Study

Question 9
To provide the best healthcare service is necessary to ensure that the most suitable and
appropriate healthcare is provided in line with an individual’s needs and or condition.
Variations in a person’s health care needs may relate to a change in their condition or
other circumstances, or even changes in their life and other conditions.
Provide an example of where you have responded to a variation in a person’s health care
needs, and how you were involved in assisting them through a coordinated service
approach?
Mary, a 35-year African American woman, attended the clinic for her annual family
planning check-up. She was using a diaphragm, and each year she would visit the setting for
follow-up care. On this particular day, Mary looks exhausted, in pain, and has a troop-like
posture. When asked what the problem was, she reported a painful back and femur, and that no
amount of time could fully restore. Also, she reported she had been falling more often, in the last
couple of months but she did not think much about. After conducting diagnostic tests, the results
showed that Mary had osteoporosis.
The nurse practitioner recommended Mary be transferred to a rehabilitation center because she
had a slightly fractured hip which would recover with time. She needed strength and gait training
to facilitate recovery of the bone. The nurse practitioner, Mary, and I started planning her
recovery plan and I was assigned to coordinate the transition. Mary would provide information
on which forms of exercise or diet she could take while the nurse practitioner incorporated our
expertise of rehabilitative care into the plan.