Case Study: COPD Patient Interview on Pulmonary Rehabilitation

This case study presents a verbatim interview with Mr. Brown, a COPD patient, detailing his experiences with pulmonary rehabilitation. Initially, Mr. Brown suffered from severe breathlessness and smoking addiction, significantly impacting his quality of life. Traditional COPD treatments, while improving the severity of the disorder, led to frustrating side effects such as hoarseness and bad breath. Pulmonary rehabilitation proved to be a turning point, helping him manage his condition, quit smoking, and improve his overall health-related quality of life. Nursing professionals provided crucial counseling and medication awareness, enabling him to develop skills in lung and muscle exercises. Ultimately, pulmonary rehabilitation allowed Mr. Brown to resume a more active lifestyle and regain a better quality of life, free from the limitations and side effects of previous treatments. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments for students.

Running head: VERBATIM
VERBATIM
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Professional: Hi! Mr.Brown. How are you doing this morning?
Patient: I am doing pretty well
Professional: how do you feel now about your lung condition?
Patient: I am quite pleased and is now living a comfortable life with very few interruptions into
my daily lives
Professional: How is your condition of COPD? You really had a very hard time with your issues
of breathlessness and smoking addiction
Patient: Yes, the pulmonary rehabilitation sessions worked magic for me. I can live so well now
with very few tensions of breathlessness affecting my daily activities. I can manage my
medications effectively now.
Professional: before coming into your experiences, can you please describe your experiences
with the treatment of COPD before you initiated pulmonary rehabilitation.
Patient: O god, it was a tiring experience and I do not want to remember it even. It had totally
destroyed my quality of life

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Professional: I am sorry to hear that Mr.Brown that you had gone through severe suffering. I had
also received complaints from other patients who had revealed same issues with the treatment
regimens of the COPD
Patient: Very true, it is. Although, it had improved the severity of the disorder, it had completely
affected my quality of life. I had to take so many medications and it was really frustrating.
Professional: this is indeed true. Huge medications are difficult to manage and adhere by.
Patient: Yes, the inhaled corticosteroid was gradually relieving me from my symptoms but as i
was using it for a long time, it was also showing several side effects.
Professional: this is harmful. I believe that the side effects were interrupting your peaceful life as
well. What kind of side effects did you experience?
Patient: the most annoying side effect was that my voice was getting quite hoarse. Not only that,
my mouth was also stinking. The smell of my mouth had become pungent.
Professional: that had been upsetting, right?
Patient: Exactly, I had to face many embarrassing situations whenever I used to participate in any
social meet. I often used to become very conscious when I needed to communicate with my
friends and relatives. I felt embarrassed for my bad breath. I wanted to get over the situation.

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Professional: Didn’t the professional give you any suggestion regarding how to handle the side
effects?
Patient: yes, I was asked to gargle twice a day. However, I did not like the suggestion as it
resulted in additional work besides taking huge number of medications for the disorder.
Professional: therefore, the idea of undertaking pulmonary rehabilitation sessions really had
positive outcomes on your quality of life.
Patient: yes, it worked wonders for me. It helped me in improving my overall health-related
quality of life. It was helpful intervention as it had no side effects or anything like that and i
finally got freedom from bad breath issues.
Professional: it feels good that you were able to resume your normal life.
Patient: initially, I used to remain physically active but the occurrence of COPD interrupted my
lifestyle. It created as a barrier against my active lifestyles. However, later with the help of
pulmonary rehabilitation, I could successfully indulge in mild to moderate activities.

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Professional: what are the other benefits that pulmonary rehabilitation had provided?
Patient: one of the most important thing was that pulmonary rehabilitation helped me to come
back into normal course of life
Professional: that is so interesting!
Patient: Yes, I was a chain smoker initially and i was not able to quit smoking. This procedure
helped me to overcome my intoxication towards smoking. Moreover, it also helped me to fight
against the complications of COPD.
Professional: that sounds great! However, did not the doctors help you out initially to overcome
smoking?
Patient: yes, doctors told me initially that I needed to quit smoking to stop worsen my COPD
symptoms and signs. However, none of the medicines that the doctors prescribe helped me to
quit smoking. It was the pulmonary rehabilitation session that actually helped me to quit
smoking ultimately

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Professional: what kind of help did you get from the nurses in your treatment with COPD?
Patient: initially I was quite upset. I was severely suffering from COPD and were taking lot of
medications. The quality of my life had become poor. The treatment procedure made me
depressed. I was forgetting many medications to take on time. Gradually, I was losing all hope
Professional: Yes, I can understand the turmoil that you were facing. It was really a hard time for
you.
Patient: yes, I was quite upset and I used to complain about it to my nursing professionals. I
requested them to help me out of this. She then described to me about the concept of pulmonary
rehabilitation
Professional: then?
Patient: the nursing professionals undertook counseling sessions and helped me to overcome
depression and hopelessness in me. Moreover, he also helped me to develop medication
awareness.
Professional: what are the skills that you have developed?
Patient: the skills and knowledge that I have developed helped me feel better and thereby helped
me in managing my lung conditions. I learnt exercising my lungs and my muscles and this
helped me in being more active. This helped me to have better quality life with my loved ones.

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Professional: you had really provided me with valuable information and we thank you for that
Patient: It my pleasure
Professional: have a nice day
Patient: you too