Nursing Case Study: Assessment, Pathophysiology, Medication, and Care Plan

NURSING CASE
STUDY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Primary and secondary assessment of Mrs El Nadir..............................................................1
Pathophysiology which is based on clinical assessment .......................................................3
Medication that prescribed earlier and suggestion for current pharmacological intervention5
Care plan for Mrs El Nadir and various intervention strategies.............................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health is defined as the state of any person which is physically, mentally and emotionally
well. As per this, the health also defined as individual who is free from disease and illness is also
called as health. Some of care of patient is taken by nurses in their workplace. They play various
role and responsibilities in a healthcare sector regards with patient compliance and provide him
comfortability. In addition to this, the nursing care plan provide an path in type of nursing care to
a individual, family and community as per requirement. The nursing care plan include
assessment, diagnosis, expected outcomes, intervention, rationale and evaluation. As per this, in
this report the case study is based on individual who is facing complication from their health
issues. They have complex past history, family history and social history, in this individual
depend of medication for longer period of time (Anstey and et. al., 2017). They face various
issue regarding with health and their disease state is very poor. In this, the reports cover the
primary and secondary assessment of patient. Their pathological condition and discuss the
pharmacological intervention with management and strategies which provide way to prevent
potential complication.
MAIN BODY
Primary and secondary assessment of Mrs El Nadir
As per this case study, there is number of complication which is facing by Mrs El Nadir
and now she is admitted in hospital and their situation is critical. However, in this they need
proper caring in hospital. This caring is gone through primary and secondary assessment. In this
the primary assessment is vital priorities for any patient which have difficulty in breathing which
include quick and instant determining of Mrs El Nadir who deal with febrile illness most of
efficiently done by asking patient if they feel feverish. In context with Mrs El Nadir, they deal
with increase coughing, increase dyspnoea and increase productive cough, fatigue and
breathlessness and facing issue regarding with respiration. There are sign which is taken in
primary assessment to control the patient which is facing respiratory distress, in this it is
decreased level of consciousness, inability to maintain respiratory efforts and cyanosis
(Beaumont and et. al., 2018). The cyanosis is defined as bluish discolouration of skin and
mucous membrane, this is experienced by excessive deoxy-heamoglobin in blood which is
caused de-oxygenation. Usually this is divided into two parts, central which cover lips, tongue
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