Choose a patient whose care you have been
involved in and identify one long term health care need, discuss the nursing
care required and how they were enabled to self-manage their healthcare need.
For this assessment you are required
to write a 2500 -word case study that reflects the module learning outcomes. It
should be based on a patient you have
cared for in your practice placement experience who has a long term health
care need. You are required to discuss the nursing assessment and identify one
patient health care problem and discuss the associated nursing care. In your
discussion you will need to consider both the nurse’s role and MDT role, you
are also required to explain how the patient was educated to self-manage their
condition. (NB. For this assignment, please ensure no individual or workplace
is identifiable. (Confidentiality and
anonymity must be maintained) this is to be written in third person as a reflective piece.The patient chronic condition is emphysema.
·
An
introduction to the patient and care setting; identify the relevance of
your choice in relation to contemporary nursing practice. This should include a
brief social and medical overview of the patient and identify any
family/significant others.
· Critically discuss the nursing assessment undertaken. This
should include a critical discussion of the assessment documentation and
risk assessment tool(s)
used to guide the person centred assessment of this patient. You should also
discuss the key nursing skills used during the assessment with rationale of why
they were used.
– Identify from your assessment 1 key long term health care need and
why you decided this was a key need for your patient.
· Identify
and discuss with rationale the nursing interventions provided for the chosen long term health care need.
· Discuss
the objective evaluation of care
provided for the chosen long term health
care need, including identification of the skills/tools used for this evaluation.
· Critically discuss the
importance of self-management and the self-management strategies required for your patient’s main long term health care need to enable the
patient to manage their health care need.
Included in this should be an overview of the role of specialist nurses and members of the
multidisciplinary team in supporting the patient
· Conclusion Closing the assignment and very briefly drawing on key points.