Concept explainers
To discuss:
What do you think that patient J might have been experiencing and why?
Case summary:
Patient J is a Spanish-speaking 8-year-old boy who was diagnosed with encephalitis. At times he would become combative and violence with muttering words. He would become calm when he was with an interpreter who speaks Spanish with him. One particular day, the physician who was writing an assessment for this patient complaining about the patient’s behavior without making any attempt to calm it down. The nurse intern knew that she could possibly help in this situation at the same time do not want to show disrespect to the physician.
To discuss:
What would have happened when the nursing student has approached the physician by using other methods to calm the patient J?
To discuss:
Would this action be considered disrespectful?
To explain:
How the physician would have responded to the nursing student’s feedback about using the Spanish language to calm down patient J?
To explain:
Would simply modeling the behavior and interventions that previously had worked with patient J provide cues for the physician?
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