Comprehensive Report: Elimination Complexities in Healthcare

This report delves into the complexities of elimination within the human body, focusing on the renal, pancreatic, hepatic, biliary, and gastrointestinal systems. It highlights the normal functions of these systems and identifies significant findings that nurses should look for when these systems are not functioning correctly. The report emphasizes the impact of elimination complexities on patient health, including emotional and psychological well-being, and underscores the crucial role of nurses and healthcare providers in addressing these challenges through medication, patient advocacy, and counseling. It also examines functional health patterns and their influence on patient care, considering risk factors such as genetics, environment, and lifestyle. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of health education, patient independence, and available resources to facilitate patient recovery and well-being. The assignment is a response to the provided assignment brief that explores the essential questions related to the normal functions of the renal, pancreatic, hepatic, biliary, and gastrointestinal systems, significant findings when systems are not functioning normally, factors considered when assisting patient's transition to independence, and resources available to assist patients as they recover.

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Elimination refers to the process through which the body gets rid of unwanted substances
in the body that may otherwise accumulate to toxic levels causing diseases. Body organs and
organ systems involved in the process include liver, kidney, colon and the skin. Elimination
complexities refer to disease conditions that affect these vital organs. Defects in the lungs and the
liver can lead to accumulation of harmful and toxic substances such as carbon dioxide, urea and
creatinine (Castellan, Sluga, Spina, and Sanson 2016). Kidney failure may also lead to
accumulation of excess water which may cause edema. Consequently other conditions such as
hypertension and myocarditis are also likely to develop.
Elimination complexities affect the patient’s health as well as their emotional and
psychological wellbeing. For instance, a disease such as a stroke affects the ability of the patient
to perform their routine activities. In additional normal physiological functioning may also be
affected such as the body’s ability to effectively pass urine or control the bowel. This may affect
the patients’ emotional health as they may feel that they are burdening their family members. On
the other hand, the family members may also feel overburdened by the patient. The family is
affected due to financial constraints, losing a productive member from the family’s taskforce and
also changing living standards to accommodate the patient’s needs. They may end up
discrimination against the patient which also affect the patient’s psychological and mental health
(May, Johnson, and Finch, 2016).
Nurses and other health care providers play a pivotal role in addressing patient’s
psychological and emotional needs. Besides giving medication, nurses also act as a link between
the patient and their family (Schonberger 2018). Nurses act as an advocate of the patients’ health
as they establish relationship with the patients, communicate on outcomes of care and also
inform the patients’ family how to handle the patient with the goal of improving their health.

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Lastly nurses also provide counseling to patients to help in reducing emotional stress and
improving psychological wellbeing.
Functional patterns of the patient helps the nurses to understand the past and the present
state of the patient’s health. According to Türen and Enç, (2020), functional health patterns
provide a holistic assessment of disease conditions, health promotion and disease prevention. A
patient’s family exerts a lot of influence on their health condition as they affects their perception
of health, management of the condition, diet, activity and exercise, perception, cognition, sleep
and rest, stress tolerance, responsibilities, beliefs and values. It is important for nurses to take
into account all the functional health patterns due to the fact that elimination complexities
develop progressively over time and their progress is affected by the functional health patterns.
The risk factors of many elimination complexities are genetic inheritance, environmental
conditions and lifestyle. For example one of the risk factors of kidney failure is diet and lifestyle
and it is possible to extract information about the condition based on the functional health
patterns of the patient. It is also important for nurses to assess which of these risk factors have
caused the illness so as to provide a good health promotion plan. Through health interviewing,
nurses are able to understand the present condition of the patient based on the onset of signs and
symptoms and the progressive culminate effect of the disease.

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Schonberger, R. J. (2018). Reconstituting lean in healthcare: From waste elimination toward
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Türen, S., & Enç, N. (2020). A comparison of Gordon's functional health patterns model and
standard nursing care in symptomatic heart failure patients: A randomized controlled
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