Nursing Assignment: Conducting Patient Interview

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
NURSING ASSIGNMENT (CONDUCTING PATIENT INTERVIEW)
Name of the student
Name of the university
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Introduction
While conducting healthcare interventions, it is important for the nursing
professionals to document or collect all the information in the patient record so that they
could foster quality as well as continuity in the care process (Dixon, Nancarrow, Enderby,
Moran & Parker, 2015, pp. 1213). In this paper, one such reporting and documentation
process would be discussed in which, clinical nursing professionals would discuss about the
health concern of a 17-year-old girl, struggling with teenage pregnancy. Further, a reflection
on the interview process would be included which would critically use the Levett- Jones
clinical reasoning cycle so that comprehensive analysis of the reporting process could be
achieved (Levett-Jones & Bourgeois, 2015, pp. 23-24).
Considering patient situation
The clinical interview with AB (17 years) was conducted in the clinical chamber of
the hospital outpatient department. This location was chosen for the patient interview because
it was a discreet place away from the noises of healthcare facility and hence, the patient
would be provided with safe and quiet environment to share her heath concerns (Lee et al.,
2016, pp. 102). I chose the semi-structured interview process so that while assessing AB and
her physical and mental healthcare complications, I could easily assess her feelings,
emotions, behaviour and other personal aspects, which could not be assessed using a
structured or close ended interview process (Dong et al., 2016, pp. 1370-1371). Therefore, by
choosing semi- structured interview, I was able to enable a smooth flow of communication,
where AB could easily discus her complications to me, and after considering her condition, I
could easily process the information provided to me and then after documentation, could
move ahead with healthcare interventions (Dixon, Nancarrow, Enderby, Moran & Parker,
2015, pp. 1210-1211).

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Collecting cues and health information
Upon entering the interview chamber, I asked the patient to sit across the table and
become comfortable as the environment is inaudible and no one would be able to hear our
conversation. I made her are about my role and the aim of our conversation so that she could
easily talk about her concerns to me. AB was comfortable in her position and showed
involvement by her body posture. She herself started the conversation by mentioning that her
primary concern is her 2 months pregnancy. When I asked about how she got pregnant, she
mentioned, “it was a causal relationship, X and I were dating since last fall”. On asking her
about the way she find out about her pregnancy, she mentioned that “I missed my last two
periods and hence I decided to go for pregnancy test kit that assured me about my
pregnancy”. “I tried to contact X after knowing about my pregnancy but he never picked my
call and avoided me completely”, she added. Upon asking her about her other concerns, she
mentioned that “I am depressed because I loved him and he betrayed me in this condition”.
She was also afraid of her patients knowing about her pregnancy and hence was not able to
visit any healthcare facility for her abortion process. She also added that “I am afraid in few
month everyone would know about my pregnancy and I would not be able to tolerate the
shame throughout my life”. Upon asking about her expectation from the healthcare facility,
she mentioned “I want to get rid of this situation, I have my examination from next month
and I am unable to concentrate on my education so that I could get good grades to achieve the
goal of my parents”. She said that she googled about birth control pills, however without
doctor prescription she would be not be able to get them. Hence, she visited out healthcare
facility for further help and support. After understanding her concern, I conducted the vital
sign assessment and then asked her to go for a pregnancy test again so that prior to provide
her abortion related interventions, her pregnancy status and complications could be assessed.