Case Study of a Patient in the Clinical Setting Submitted by: Bhakti Amin ID Number: 4209426 Presented to: Professor Tanja Cupac June 06, 2016 NURS 1495 Nursing Theory B.V., a 55 year old male admitted to the hospital on 15/03/2016. His approximate educational level is College Diploma. He is admitted with the medical history of chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD) disease and coronary artery disease (CAD). Definition of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) COPD is preventable
This patient presented to The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano in Plano, Texas on July 13th of this year presenting chest pain, shortness of breath and exhaustion upon exertion. Upon admission to the hospital, patient was determined to have diabetes mellitus type 2 and presented conditions consistent with coronary artery disease. A physical exam revealed a 76 year old male with a blood pressure of 138/85 with an irregular and slightly elevated pulse of 103. Patient also presented elevated cholesterol
This study represents one year follow-up of two prospective groups of patients. Group A (potentially septic wounds-peritonitis) included 80 patients, 64(80%) males and 16 (20%) females. Group B (Aseptic wounds-IPHge) included 80 patients, 60(75%) males and 20 (25%) females. All patients (160) of group A and B underwent urgent midline laparotomy. As regard to socio-demographic data which are shown in table(1). There was insignificant difference between the two studied groups regarding gender
inpatient care of the Patient from March 30, 2017 to April 4, 2017 due to lack of medical necessity. Department’s Position The Department’s Representative testified that the Patient was a thirty one (31) year old man who was admitted to the Appellant hospital, March 25, 2017, due to psychosis and depression. She stated that by March 30, 2017, the Patient was anxious, but showing calm and cooperative behavior. Additionally, the Department explained that by May 30, 2017, the Patient was still depressed
Patient is a 74 year old female who states she takes four medications a day. One of the medications she takes regularly is Amlodipine Besylate 5mg, she takes this medication as directed. Another medication she takes daily is Bisoprolol/HCTZ 10mg/6.25mg, she takes this medication once daily. The patient told me that the previously mentioned medications are to control her hypertension. The third medication the patient takes is Simvastatin 20mg, she told me she takes this medication for her cholesterol
Dr Shiva Mukti, a psychiatrist at St Mungo's, a small and down-at-heel general hospital situated – rather bizarrely – in the dusty pit left behind when the Middlesex Hospital was demolished in the spring of 2008, had, through various serpentine manipulations, got hold of his senior colleague Dr Zack Busner's mobile phone number, and this he proceeded to call: 'Who is it?' Busner snapped. He was lying naked on his bed in the bedroom of the grotty first-floor flat he had recently rented on Fortess
The following is a case study of a female patient; she is 50 years old, married with 2 older children that no longer live at home. She has a 2 bedroom home, a car, her husband works at night and she always has a smile on her face. I met the patient in February 2016. We received a referral to our program because of the patient’s high emergency department utilization. According to her chart, she had 13 emergency room visits in the 6 months prior to joining the Outpatient Care Management program
APPENDICITIS Case study Patient name: J.K Sex: Male Race: Fijian Age: 47 Personal History Mr. J.K is married with four children. He describes himself as a socialable person likes to explore new things. Occupation: He works at the Nasinu Town Council as a Carpenter Family History: -his father is a known diabetic patient and his grandmother died of leukemia -his paternal uncle had died from septicemia. Social History: Cigarettes 1 pack per week x 12years now; he stopped smoking
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to analysis the care of a patient who endured the death of her baby while in nursing care. In doing so, the components of the Framework for a Good Death (Emanuel & Emanuel, 1998) will be discussed. The goal is to examine the factors that come into play when caring for a patient who is experiencing grief and loss, as well as examine the multidisciplinary health disciplines utilized to offer the best of care when dealing with end-of-life decisions. What
The objective of the current study is to relate the covert observation five employees in a nursing home in which the writer resides to core course concepts such as empathy and altruism. The current author looks into how to examine egoism versus altruism, and how employment affects helping others. Employees of a nursing home must be attuned to the needs of the individual and must anticipate their needs, since so many nursing home residents are unable to ask for assistance. The employees of the nursing