taking care of a patient in a nursing home for the first time
You will be taking care of a patient in a nursing home for the first time
Read Chapter 4: Competencies for Professional Nursing Practice
Question:
You will be taking care of a patient in a nursing home for the first time. Your assignment is to care for an older man who has heart disease. In addition, he has five other medical problems and takes 20 medications. While developing a plan of care for this patient, you can identify 8 to 10 nursing problems. You have no previous experience with nursing homes, and most of what you have heard and read about them is negative. Will you find yourself dreading the clinical day and expecting a negative experience before you even begin?
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As a nurse, I am taking care of an elderly man who has heart disease in a nursing home facility. The patient has other complications and is taking 20 medications. While developing the care plan, I learned that the patient has more than one nursing requirement, including bedside care, psychological support, multi-disciplinary care, patient education, medication, personal assistance, follow-up services, and collaboration with family members. These practices require health professionals to be competent and collaborate to provide effective care. However, I have read that nursing homes have not been effective in treating heart diseases. For example, patients with heart diseases do not get pharmacological treatment in nursing homes (Daamen et al., 2016).
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