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Nursing Health Alterations Assignment

   

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Nursing Health Alterations

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Q1 What are the implications for the patient, Susan, and her husband regarding symptommanagement and access to care given their relative isolation and diminished access to healthcare?........................................................................................................................................1Q2. Identifying the actions Registered Nurse may take to encourage individual or groupaccess to, and participation in, healthcare to manage the needs of persons and their familyrequiring healthcare................................................................................................................2Q3 Which elements of the social justice framework and professional ethical and practicestandards for the Registered Nurse would support the actions of the Registered Nurseidentified in Question 2 and why?..........................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTIONQ1 What are the implications for the patient, Susan, and her husband regarding symptommanagement and access to care given their relative isolation and diminished access tohealth care?As Susan is overweight and she is suffering from the Type 2 diabetes, she wouldbe facing various associated symptoms like fatigue, no weight loss and lack of propermotivation. She is taking oral medication from 6 months after being diagnosed for diabetes.Also, she has denied the severe symptoms like polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia, blurred visionand vaginal infection. During health assessment, registered nurse finds out that during afternoon,Susan's energy level went down and she feels tearful (Halter, 2017). She stated that she wasdiagnosed with depression. She also told that she is not taking her anti-depressants, which wereprescribed to her. She has gained enormous weight and when she tried to cut down the foodintake, she had symptoms of shakiness, diaphoresis and increased hunger. She is also fearful toget hypoglycaemia and often eats a lot.This all occurred as she and her husband were unknown to various implications of thesymptoms and this led to the poor management of her diabetes. Susan and her husband were lessknowledgeable to understand various symptoms of diabetes and will look after effective handlingof various measures that would have led to effective rise in health conditions of patient. She andher husband would have taken an effective precaution to prevent any sort of further deteriorationof her health condition. This would have saved her life and she would have been in effectivehealth condition that would have led to significant rise in health condition of Susan. Thedepression and avoiding intake of antidepressant has added further in ruining of the healthcondition of Susan. Her husband, being unknown to different implications of various symptomsthat are been taken into proper consideration to tackle diabetes also led to ruining of her healthcondition (Urden, Stacy and Lough, 2015).Looking at conditions and various symptoms that have occurred in Susan, she and herhusband would have taken appropriate and significant measures to control further increase in theblood and body sugar level. They had adopted proper treatment and had taken the appropriatemedications that helped them to a better idea about different measures which would have been inthe effectively improved her health condition in a better way. Also, considering increase in herbody weight, Susan should have taken appropriate measure to cut down her snacks intake and1

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