GCNNK2 Nursing Knowledge 2 Case Study

NAME OF THE STUDENT
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY
Formative assessment

Introduction
Nursing management
encompasss performance of
various leadership functions
that are associated to decision
making within healthcare
organisations (Kitson,
Marshall, Bassett & Zeitz,
2013).
The case study is about a
patient Mr. Ferguson, a 76 year
old person, admitted to the
Emergency department, after
complaints of chest heaviness.

Tachycardia
Usually, heart rate greater than
100 beats per minute is considered
as an indicator of tachycardia.
Tachycardia common known as
tachyarrhythmia refers to the
physiological state when the heart
rate of an individual exceeds the
usual resting heart rate.
In the words of Al-Zaiti and Magdic
(2016) at the cellular level,
increased heart rate is often allied
with electrical re-entry and/or
abnormal automacity .

Hypertension
The patient suffers from high
blood pressure
This state refers to increased
blood pressure and is a medical
condition marked by sudden
upsurge in the pressure of blood
that flows in the arteries.
Structural narrowing of arteries
and small arterioles, besides a
lessening in the number and
density of capillaries lead to the
condition (Mollan et al., 2016).