Transition Nursing Assessment

I am inspired to embark on this path because I want to gain an in depth understanding within the Learning Disability and Mental Health field for example professional aspects of care, biological basis for health and well being, identifying knowledge for nursing practice, origins and expressions of Mental Health and wellbeing, I want to be able to carry out the tasks of providing care and support for people with mental in capabilities, knowing that I am doing so with the full comprehension and grasp of what each patient needs.

Alzheimer is a dangerous disease that mostly affects the brain. Alzheimer disease associates itself with a set of symptoms including memory loss as well as talking and thinking challenges. These side effects happen when harm occurs in the cerebrum. The decision to pick between a nursing home care and assisted living for a close person who requires special help is a troublesome dilemma that face numerous families who have Alzheimer patients. Families are often feel poorly prepared to settle on the right choice. The research aims at helping families by looking at the advantages and shortcomings of every sort of consideration. The reason is that before making a decision on that topic, it is important

Simon Douglas is a clinical research nurse at the Wolfson Research Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently coordinating a number of studies, particularly on dementia in nursing and residential homes and providing input into a new trial of non-pharmacological interventions for dementia. Ian James is a consultant clinical psychologist at the Centre for the Health of the Elderly at Newcastle General Hospital and a

The nursing process is a scientific process made up of five steps to ensure that quality care is given by the nurse and received by the patient. It requires identifying the most efficient means to generate optimum results. The steps follow each other at the start of the process but may need to act in conjunction with one another in some situations. The steps however do not end with evaluation but begin again.

The patient tells me that she is unsure when her last menstrual cycle was. Her periods are very irregular and she had not been keeping track of it. She and her husband have been attempting pregnancy for the last year and a half and she tells me that as of Thursday, August 27th, she and her husband had gone through the procedures for adoption. She said that she knows she ovulated on August 18th. She was using an ovulation kit. She took a home pregnancy test on the 28th, which was positive, repeated with a different brand of test on the 29th and that was also positive. She has a regular gynecologist with York Gynecology, Robert Cervenka, MD, that she uses regularly, and she already has an appointment with him

In the book, Surviving Alzheimer’s: Practical tips and soul-saving wisdom for caregivers, the writer, Paula Spencer Scott, gives insightful advice in regards to caring for someone that suffers from the unfortunate neurological disorder, Alzheimer’s. Scott does not hesitate to share multiple ideas, experiences about trying these ideas, and even included professional advice from geriatric specialist

For the nurses to help their patients, it is necessary to set the health goals with them and work mutually to achieve those goals. And if we have a closer look at King’s nursing process, it has a logical sequence. For instance, when a patient arrives, the first job of the nurse is to assess him/her and gather all the possible information about the patient including his/her health history, current health status and all. And in return the patient delivers the data for the asked questions. This is how interaction between the nurse- patient takes place. In the next phase of the diagnosis, the nurse analyzes the problem by utilizing the data collected from the assessment. Further, going to the next step, planning takes place. In this phase, the nurse and patient work together in setting the goals and making mutual decision to achieve the set objective. After setting a certain goal, they will implement those plans to work on with. And finally, the nurse evaluates the patient determining whether the set goal is achieved or not (Wayne, 2014). To better understand this concept lets consider an example:

This is a situation that many of us have experienced before. I know as a tele nurse I have many times. A patient that was admitted to our unit yesterday was assigned to us. They came to the hospital with heart failure and now they are having chest pain. Pain rating is subjective. We must take into consideration factors that affect the patients physiologic, psychologic, sociocultural, emotional and behavioral state. My assessment of this patient happens as soon as I walk into the room. I would notice the patients behavior. Does the patient appear in pain (crying, holding chest, grimacing)? Are they short of breath, diaphoretic? I would ask the patient to rate his pain using a face pain scale from 1 – 10. Utilization of the acronym OLD CART

The national league for nurses defines critical thinking in the nursing process as “a discipline specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a nurse in generating, implementing, and evaluating approaches for dealing with client care and professional concerns” (Kozier, 2008). This definition is imperative to help a nursing student learn how to think in terms of nursing care. Nursing students must achieve a comprehensive understanding of critical thinking in order to understand the nursing process. The purpose for this paper is for nursing students to learn how to use the nursing process, how to properly document their findings and assessments, and correctly implement APA formatting in a formal paper.

The impact that Alzheimer’s disease has on the patient’s family and caregivers is really devastating. It must be very hard for the patient’s family to see what their loved one is going through. They may feel grief and lose. It is a very unfortunate thing for both the patient and the family to live life with the loss of memory. They may have had so many good memories in the past but due to this disease patient may lose all those memories. It is very hard for family and caregivers to see the patient struggling with doing daily activities due to memory impairment. Sometimes it can be overwhelming for family members and caregiver to manage time because they have to give extra attention and dedication. They need to make sure that the patient is

Assessment is the first part of the nursing process and thus forms the basis of the care plan. The essential requirement of accurate assessment is to view the patients holistically and thus identify their real needs. The general survey of an assessment gives a broad range of impression of the individual.

Although many families want to do what is best for their loved one, they may be required to make the decision to place them into a nursing home because it is too hard to care for them on their own. Even though this is a very hard decision, they find themselves questioning themselves whether it is the right time for this big change. How do you know it is time? What are some of the signs? At Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center, researcher Peter Rabins, talked about some of the signs you will see to help you better decide. If the development of a physical impairment advances and the caregiver can no longer meet the demand of help, it may be time to place the loved

There are a number of ways to assess pain in paediatric patients. These assessment methods can be broadly defined as self-report, behavioural observation and psychological observation. They should be used in combination with each other, as they have varying levels of reliability due to the influence of other factors that are unrelated to pain.

Summary: The patient was involved in a motorcycle accident in which his bike fell onto and injured his left leg. When the nurses assessing the patient could not detect a pulse in that leg, an ominous sign of circulatory failure. The physician when notified chose to dismiss this fact and discharge the patient. The patient would return soon after with worsening symptoms that would require emergency surgery. Should the nurses have initially pressed for further action, treatment?

Having Alzheimer’s disease causes a significant change in the patients’ roles and responsibilities. These roles and responsibilities are mainly affected by the patients’ loss of abilities. In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, people experience minor memory impairments. However, as the disease progresses, they can experience more serious difficulties such as forgetting daily routines. Besides this, they can eventually lose all mental capacities, including memory and language (Grison et al. 151). One woman describes noticing these changes in