Developing Nursing Knowledge: Episode of Care and Nursing Interventions

Developing Nursing Knowledge

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................2
Episode of care..................................................................................................................................2
Nursing care interventions:................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................4
APPENDIX...........................................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTION
Nursing is a professional practice which involves collaborative and autonomous care
of individuals of all communities, families and ages, whether sick or well. Nursing is a

profession in healthcare which focus on the care of individuals as well as their families for
helping them to maintain their proper health and also to recover from disease or illness
(Cassiani and Lira, 2018). They have wider scope of approaches and practices to medical care
in healthcare providers.
The report will aim to analyse a short essay which comprises of episode of care,
identification of two problems, a care plan and the nursing care which focuses on nursing
interventions.
MAIN BODY
Episode of care
Episode of care refers to the continuous period of nursing care which is provided to a
patient on site for 24 hours. It is considered a part of Hospital provider Care home stay which
is provided under the direct care of a nurse (Sambare and Bozic, 2021). The patient can be a
day care patient, day case patient, outpatient or an inpatient. Every episode is care is initiated
by admission from referral and it ends by the discharge process. It is also referred as the
managed care service which is provided for a particular illness in a particular set time. For
example: An outpatient with an episode is admitted and discharged within a particular
speciality such as physiotherapy episode.
Nursing care interventions:
For Alzheimer disease:
As Mrs Jones have been confused and find it difficult to recognise people sometimes.
She needs helps for doing basic things such as dressing and grooming. These symptoms are
the identified symptoms of impaired memory related to Alzheimer’s disease. It is mostly
common in old people. The disease is evident through the symptoms such as memory loss,
inability to reason, inability to follow simple commands, inappropriate behave when in
people, paranoia, wandering and alternation sin sleeping pattern (Lane, Hardy and Schott,
2018). Most of the symptoms are visible in Mrs Jones as well as in her daughter Anna. Anna
have been seen muttering things to herself. She behave in a strange way and her sleeping
patterns have been disturbed.
For this disease the nursing intervention can involve the use of orientation techniques
such as use of calendars, memo and radio etc. to make the patient self-aware as well as aware
of the surrounding environment. The other intervention can be to make the patient and assist