Patient Care

Running head: PATIENT CARE
Patient Care
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1PATIENT CARE
The case study of Rob describes a complex case of diabetes mellitus type 2 and
neurological problem of the patient. From the case study it is observed that Rob was suffering
from diabetes mellitus type 2 and he is managing this condition himself for a last few
decades. After death of his wife, he moved to a new place near to his children’s place. He
was the only care provider of his wife. In his new house, at least one family member of Rob
can visit his place frequently. However, the death of his wife and relocation from the family
house was very difficult to cope up for Rob. He has withdrawn himself from all of the social
networking platforms and it was also reported that, Rob is losing his motivation for taking
care for himself. Sally is Rob’s power of attorney and she also takes care the finance of Rob.
Recently Sally found that Rob is behaving differently and he is speaking incoherently. In
addition to this, he is agitated in recent days and is trying to move out from his new house
and even he refused to recognize her own daughter Sally. Sally took her father to hospital
suspecting that he might have dementia and in hospital. In hospital the blood sugar level of
Rob was diagnosed to be 11.0mmol/L.
From the above scenario, it is very clear that, Rob is primary client and he is suffering
from chronic diabetes mellitus type 2. In addition to this, it is suspected that, Rob might have
the problem of dementia. Moreover, he might have onset of mental illness such as depression
as it is observed that he had isolated himself from everything and had become careless about
himself (Courtin & Knapp, 2017).
In this patient case scenario, it is recommended that, a multidisciplinary care approach
will be required to take care of Rob. According to the study of Galvin, Valois & Zweig
(2014), it is reported that a collaborative multidisciplinary approach will be help for taking
care of dementia. In this study, it is reported that, in case of dementia patients team-based
collaborative care is very effective as it will allow a multicomponent interventions to be
applied in the care process of dementia patients. On the other hand, according to the study of

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McGill et al. (2017), showed the effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams in the care process
of diabetes type 2 patients. In case of Rob, the interdisciplinary team will comprise of a
general practitioners, a nurse practitioners, a neurologist, a social worker and a dietician
(Griffiths, Bridges, Sheldon & Thompson, 2015).
The interdisciplinary team will comprise of the aforesaid members and all of the
members of the interdisciplinary team is very crucial for the care process of Rob. In a
hospital settings, a nurse practitioner is the primary care provider for Rob as the nurse
practitioner is responsible for identifying any underlying symptoms of the patient as early
diagnosis of dementia will help in further progression of the disease. However, if the nurse
practitioner can provide a safe environment to the patient, the patient will feel comfortable
and may share information which help in the care process. In addition to this, the nurse
practitioner is also responsible for managing the medicines of the patients. In this case study
of Rob, the nurse practitioner will also manage the medicines of diabetes as Rob is also
suffering from diabetes type 2. The medication of dementia cannot cure the problem,
however those medicines will slow down the process of neuronal degeneration (Bamford et
al., 2014). A general practitioners can provide a wide range of care to the patients. For
example, a GP can provide advice regarding the ways of preventing dementia, medical
advice, care planning. In addition to this, if the condition is very complicated GP can refer the
patients to a specialists. In many cases it is observed that a GP can provide additional care for
other problems like diabetes (Tan, Jennings & Reuben, 2014). In this case of Rob, a GP can
help him by giving additional care for his diabetes condition apart from the dementia care.
Moreover, a GP will be responsible for keeping the records of the patients in case of Rob.
The neurologist in the interdisciplinary team of Rob will be responsible for taking care of
dementia condition of Rob. The social worker in this case will be responsible for emotional
wellbeing, social inclusion of the person, improvement of quality of life of the patients. The