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Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT NURSING ASSIGNMENT BASED ON CASE STUDY 1Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

NURSING ASSIGNMENT 1Answer 1The primary cause of congestive cardiac failure is the decreasing power of the heartmuscles in pumping blood (Roger, 2013). In this health condition, blood builds up around theheart and leads to inefficient pumping. The four chambers of heart right and left ventricles andatria within which, oxygenated blood is pumped to different organs through ventricles and atriacollects deoxygenated blood from different organs to the heart (Mozaffarian et al., 2016).However, in congestive cardiac failure, the ventricles are unable to pump blood and body startsstoring blood inside lungs, abdomen, lower body and liver. In the entire world, more than 23million people are affected with congestive cardiac failure and the trend has been seen indeveloping countries having low socio-economic status (Mahmood et al., 2014). The risk factors associated with congestive cardiac failure are high blood pressure,coronary artery disease due to plaque formation that narrows the oxygenated bloodconcentration, damaged heart muscle due to heart attacks. Further as per the given study, Mrs.Sharon had irregular heartbeats and respiratory rates which is one of the risk factors forcongestive cardiac failure (Swedberg et al., 2012). Further, viral infection related heart damage,excessive alcohol usage, increased blood sugar and sleep apnoea are also risk factors associatedwith congestive heart disorder. Within these, high blood pressure is the primary risk factorassociated with the disorder. High blood pressure affects the heart muscle by causing the leftventricular hypertrophy which is basically the thickening of the heart muscle. It makes therelaxation process of heart muscle less effective in between heartbeats and hence heart is unableto fill its compartments with enough blood to reach each organ of the body (Heidenreich et al.,2013).

NURSING ASSIGNMENT 2The effect of this cardiac disease impacts the patient emotionally as well as physically.As the heart muscles are affected in congestive cardiac failure, the muscles began to form scartissues. Due to this irregular heartbeats, myocardial rupture, leakage in heart valves and swellingin the sac of heart occurs (Heidenreich et al., 2013). Further, the emotional impact of cardiacfailure is also deleterious as it leads to depressive symptoms in the patient as mentioned in thecase study, Mrs. Sharon stays with her husband it may impact the health of her husband as he canalso lead to develop depressive symptoms. Furthermore, according to Mahmood et al., (2014),the patients family or friends have been seen to develop more psychological impact than thepatient and hence, the impact of congestive heart failure on the family of Mrs. Sharon will alsobe higher. Answer 2The five common signs and symptoms of Congestive cardiac failure and theirpathophysiology are as below: 1. Shortness of breath – The syndrome related to Congestive cardiac failure is associatedwith the improper cardiac structure, rhythm and function. As the heart muscles in this conditionis unable to pump enough blood to the organs of body, adequate oxygen delivery to the entirebody also gets hampered. Further, due to this, blood and other fluids starts accumulating aroundother organs such as lungs that eventually leads to shortness of breath even at the restingcondition (Ambrosy et al., 2013). 2. Swollen ankles- in this condition, excessive swelling the legs, ankles and hands can beobserved. This occurs due to excessive accumulation of fluid in the entire body. This occurs dueto the inability of the heart to pump oxygenated blood in the entire body, due to which

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