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Nurses' Case Study: An Example of a Student Name

   

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Running head: NURSING CASE STUDY Nursing Case Study Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1NURSING CASE STUDYTable of ContentsAnswer 1:.........................................................................................................................................2Answer 3:.........................................................................................................................................5Answer 4:.........................................................................................................................................8Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

2NURSING CASE STUDYAnswer 1: Betty has been admitted to the hospital care unit due to the fact that she has been suffering frombreathing trouble and chest congestion. After she was admitted to the hospital, the immediatediagnosis declared that he has been suffering from pneumonia. The major clinical practice issues,in this case, is due to the fact that Betty is an aged individual and she is currently suffering frommultiple medical concerns including hypertension, asthma, osteoarthritis andhypercholesterolemia. It can be said in the context that most of the people are not able to get the proper forms ofmedical treatment on several occasions due to age related complications (Ackley et al., 2016).After her diagnosis was done, she was admitted to the respiratory ward of the hospital. The wardof the hospital has four beds and the aged lady was given the bed at the extreme corner of theroom. This will raise the clinical issues due to the fact that it will not be possible for the lady tomove freely. Moreover, as the location of the bed is much away from the nurse’s wards it maynot be possible for them to provide with immediate care during the time of emergency. It is also important for the nurses to keep a well-maintained track and record of themedication that has been provided to the patient (Alkon et al., 2016). Nevertheless, in the givencase it has been seen that the nursing staffs are not able to remember about the medication thathas been provided to the patient. The medication chart is one of the important medical recordsthat are needed in case of all future references for providing medical treatment. In the given case,the lack of the medication chart is one of the major clinical issues. Moreover, due to her age, itmay not be possible for Betty to keep a track of her mental health. Hence, the clinical issue in

3NURSING CASE STUDYthis context is due to the fact that the nurses have to keep a track record of the activities of thepatient (Camicia et al., 2013). It has been seen in the case that the nurse had not given the extra care that is needed todeal with Betty in order to deal with the mental disturbance issue. It was important in these casesfor the nurse to provide the mental support and assurance to the patient that can help them duringthe time of recovery. Due to the negligence of the nurse, Betty had to suffer the consequence oflaceration and suffer from high level of bleeding. This also resulted in the hip fracture of thepatient that was diagnosed from the X-ray report of the patient. After considerable discussion with the patient’s daughter, the doctor had decided toconduct a surgery for the fractured hip of the patient. However, four days after the surgery wasover, it was noted that the patient has not displayed much sign of improvement. On the contrary,it was observed that bad odour was spreading from the surgical site. Hence, it can be said thatdecision of conducting the surgery owing to the condition of the patient was not done in propermanner. The clinical condition of the patient worsen due to the fact that proper care was takenfor the recovery of the patient during the period of post-surgery. Answer 2The standards of the National Health and Safety Standards have been issued by the healthcare department of the Australian government. This was done in collaboration and coordinationwith the group of the judicial commission along with that of the stakeholder groups of healthcare(Gulanick& Myers, 2013). The main purpose of these health standards is to ensure that qualityand safety standards of the health care are being maintained and it is possible for the patients toget the best quality of healthcare service. It is also possible to monitor the organizational

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