The Surgical Patient

The Surgical Patient

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART A...........................................................................................................................................3
PART B: IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL CLINICAL ISSUES.......................................................5
1. Examining co- morbidities of Sarah......................................................................................5
2. Evaluating 2 potential clinical complications associated with co- morbidities which may
arise within a period of 24 hours.................................................................................................6
3. Evaluating the nursing intervention with significant rationale...............................................6
PART C............................................................................................................................................7
Prioritizing discharge advice plan...............................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
This project is based around the case study of Sarah Brown a 66-year-old retired teacher
has been admitted for an open right hemicolectomy It is necessary to provide effective health and
care services to all patients including Sarah. Care services are given on a daily basis to those of
who have health conditions. For some patients that suffer acute care, patients are required to
develop a care plan and and schedule to ensure all their care needs and services are given. Also,
there may occur some clinical health issue due to which it can impact on care. Thus, these issues
needs to be intervene by nurse (Banach, & et.al., 2018).
In this essay it will be described about the given case study and a care plan will be
developed. Also, it will be explained that 2 clinical complication which may arise, and using the
patients admission details it is important to consider the patients situation. Intregrated into this
discussion will be treatment management plan based on Sarahs condition, so that she can
maintain quality of life and have less hospital admisions. Relevant interventions will be
discussed, and moreover, discharge planning of patient will be described as well.
PART A
Assessment Potential problems /
issues
Interventions Rationales
Blood pressure: 90/54
Pulse rate: 116 and regular
Respiratory rate: 12/min
shallow SaO2 95% 2 litres
via nasal prongs
Temperature 36.8°C
Sedation score = 1-2
Vacudrain in-situ 400 ml
in bag
Sarah has a history of
smoking cigarettes
per day.
Nicotine replacement
therapy is considered
to be highly significant
intervention for
quitting smoking.
This therapy is
highly
significant for
the people
who wants to
quit smoking
(Eliezer and
et.al., 2020). It
helps in
cutting down
the craving