Nursing Assignment: Head Injury, Patient Assessment and Care

This nursing assignment focuses on the care of a patient with a head injury. The assignment explores the role of a nurse in assessing a patient's condition, particularly through the use of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), and communicating effectively with the patient and their parents. The assignment emphasizes the importance of understanding the patient's cognitive abilities and the potential risks associated with continued participation in sports after a head injury. The assignment also highlights the need to comply with ethical standards and inform the patient about the severity of their condition. The nurse's role includes assessing the injury, communicating with the patient and family, and providing appropriate care and advice.

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The primary role of advanced practitioner nurses is to understand the health
complication of the patients through assessment, diagnosis and treatment of illness and then
provide primary acute and specialty care to the patients. While working with the 17 year old
boy who is suffering from the head injury (scenario 5), my role as an advanced practice nurse
would be very crucial and it has been mentioned below.
The boy is suffering from a head injury while a football match and despite the injury
wishes to play an important game three days after the match. As the patient suffered a head
injury, my primary focus would be conducting an assessment method using the Glasgow
Coma Scale (GCS) so that the adverse effect of his injury could be understood (Nel &
Govender, 2018). However, to understand his concerns and his cognitive abilities, I would
develop effective communication with the patient and his further sports participation could be
evaluated (Ball et al., 2015). I would try to make the patient understand his critical health
condition and would inform his health status so that his ethical rights could be complied with
and he could understand the severity of his health condition. As Krzeczkowski, Robb and
Good (2017) mentioned that the effect of head injury is observed through patient’s ability to
develop constructive sentences and alertness, these factors would be considered while
assessing the boy with head injury. Besides, I would communicate with the parents of the
patient so that I could inform them about the severity of their child’s injury so that they could
make him understand that playing football with such injury could affect his future career as
an athlete (Ball et al., 2015). Therefore, these way I would be responding to the situation.

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References
Ball, J. W., Dains, J. E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R. W. (2015). Sports
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Krzeczkowski, J. E., Robb, S. A., & Good, D. E. (2017). Trait mindfulness is associated with
lower post-injury psychological symptoms following a mild head
injury. Mindfulness, 8(6), 1594-1602.
Nel, K., & Govender, S. (2018). Cumulative Mild Head Injury (CMHI) in Contact Sports.
In Sports Medicine. IntechOpen.