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Nursing Care for Clients with Chronic Health Problems : Paper Assignment

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Nursing Care for Clients with Chronic Health Problems : Paper Assignment

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1.1 Chronic Kidney Disease and its Clinical ManifestationThis is a condition portrayed by a progressive improper kidney functioning over a period1.When kidney disease develops to severe levels, toxins accumulate in the blood making the victim to develop diseases like high blood pressure, nerve damage, and heart ailment. Symptoms include edema, blood in urine, insomnia and itchy skin2.1.2 Explaining Possible Physical or Psychological impactsChronic kidney disease sources other complications leading to inactivity in some patients limiting their movement and carrying their daily activities. This is accompanied by psychologicalproblems since the patient lives with uncertainty. Thus, physicians should be precise in giving information to ensure adequate measures are taken to manage the disease. 1.3 Planning on how to discuss health issues with healthcare team Handling a client with chronic illness needs one to have the health history of the client. Hence consulting with the healthcare team on how to help the client will require one to know the social, emotional and cognitive status of the client and identifying the needs of the patient through screening for priority reasons. 1Levey, Andrew S., et al. "National Kidney Foundation practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification, and stratification",Annals of internal medicine, vol.139, no. 2, 2003, p. 1452Schiffrin et al. "Chronic kidney disease",Circulationvol. 116, no. 1, 2007, p. 87
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2. Planning the care of stomach cancer patient requiring palliative care Palliative care is usually given to patients with life-threatening sickness whose chances of survival are minimal3. Caring for such a patient will include relief of pain and related symptoms, counseling and suffering support, help for emotional, cultural and spiritual aspects and connections to services like home help and monetary support.3. Interventions for congestive Cardiac Disease.Supplement oxygen should be administered to increase oxygen for heart muscles uptake to counter the outcome of hypoxia. Reducing or avoiding salty liquids helps in decreasing myocardial workload since salty solutions leads to liquid retention. The legs should be elevated to counter pressure on the knees to decrease venous stasis and decreasing occurrences of thrombus. Administer vasodilators for example Nitro-Dur and Isordil which increases heart output and reduces circulating volume hence decrease ventricular workload administering morphine sulphate also reduces myocardial workload escpecially when heart congestion is present. Motivate rest to decreases heart muscle oxygen demand or consumption and workload4. 4. Tracheostomy care3Copp, Gina. "Palliative care nursing education: a review of research findings",Journal of AdvancedNursingvol.19, no. 3, 1994, p. 5534McMurray, John JV, et al. "ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012."European journal of heart failure, vol. 14, no. 8, 2012 p. 833
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