Nursing Case Studies

Complaint of Chest Pain Case Study
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Introduction: Jon Teegardin   When assessing the patient with chest pain, it is important to pay attention to all of the information available from the patient. Not all chest pain is related to cardiac issues, ...

Depression and Suicidal Ideation: Mental Health Case Study
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Introduction: Introduction Mental health nursing is a complex healthcare practice, because it aims to meet the needs of clients with mental health needs, which are usually also complex and require more than a sing...

Critical Thinking Process Case Study
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Introduction: As Buckingham and Adams (2000) state, “getting a better understanding of their decision making processes has important benefits for nurses”, and for their employers and their patients (p 982). Cr...

Anorexia Nervosa Patient Case Study
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Introduction: For my six week clinical practice placement in an adolescent mental health unit I chose to focus my project on a 15-year-old anorexia nervosa patient. This disorder largely affects young women and is...

Health Promotion in Adult Nursing: Adult Asthma Case Study
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Introduction: This essay will address how to help a 20 year old asthma sufferer bring to an end his recurrent admissions to hospital because of acute exacerbations in his asthma. Asthma is a common and chronic inf...

Case Study: Fractured Hand
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Introduction: Introduction The reflective framework chosen for this case study is that of Peters (1991). This framework has been used and favourable evaluated within education (Bell and Gillett, 1996). Peters’ (...

Triaging in a Major Disaster: Haiti Earthquake Case Study
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Introduction: Haiti Earthquake On January 12, 2012, the country of Haiti was hit by a catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake that changed the lives of people living across the nation. The earthquake struck inland b...

Achilles Tendon Sprain Case Study
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Introduction: Name: Lani Thompson Age: 26 Sex: Female Occupation: Merchandiser Height: 179 Weight:77.8, BMI: Diet: Mixed Family: She lives with her partner, no kids. Medical History: No history of Hypertension, Ca...

Case Study: Managing Risk
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Introduction: Juaries Fe Dela Cruz John Murphy Molina Introduction This study demonstrates the critical value of having an essential knowledge and practical strategy in managing risk considering the policy and pro...

Mental Health Case Study: Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
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Introduction: Mental health, Amir Daud case study   Later in your initial discussions with Amir you think he may be having an anxiety disorder. Identify the character of anxiety disorder Amir is likely to be exp...

Case Study: Hospital Fall of an Elderly Patient
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Introduction: A case study of a critical incident based on a hospital fall of an elderly patient with memory problems who has had several falls at home and has been admitted to a community hospital for assessment....

Client Based Care Case Study: Elderly with Diabetes
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Introduction: 215479 Client Based Care Study Introduction In this essay, the author will explore the care of a single patient, encountered in clinical practice, examining the impact on quality of care, and on the ...

Case Study: Impact of Type 1 Diabetes
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Introduction: Title: Knowledge required for decision making in adult nursing   Introduction. This essay is primarily about the impact of Type 1 diabetes on a particular patient. It will consider not only the rele...

Concept of Individualised Care: Geriatric Case Study
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Introduction: Explain what is meant by the term ‘individualised care. Discuss, using examples from a second practice placement, how one individual patient’s /clients needs were met using this approach....

Nursing Case Study: Osteoarthritis (OA) Management
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Introduction: Introduction Over 60% of adults in England suffer from a chronic health problem (Department of Health 2004). Osteoarthritis (OA) is among the most common chronic conditions, particularly among older ...

Chest Pain Case Study
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Introduction: Ebunoluwa Mikiie   Chest Pain There are various Chest pains. Chest pain may be caused by gastrointestinal, respiratory, cardiac or musculoskeletal analysis. Chest pains may also be caused by anxiety...

Psoriasis Case Study
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Introduction: Case Study B. Trimble Case Study P.D. a twenty-three-year-old female presents with symptoms of psoriasis. She has several thick scaly, well defined, erythematous plaques, which are silver...

Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis Case Studies
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Introduction: The main aim of this essay is to understand different aspects of medical conditions ranging from pathophysiology, symptoms, risk factors, and the management of two case studies. The first case study ...

Impact of Stroke Case Study
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Introduction: Introduction Jithra is now 68 years of age. Her family consists of husband, daughter, nephew and nephew’s wife. She has been living with left side hemiplegia caused by stroke since she was 64. ...

Case Study: Patient with Heart Burn
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Introduction: The patient is a 45 year old male with a history of eight weeks complaint of heart burn that worsens with lying down after dinner. The patient states that the pain lasts thirty minutes to two hours, ...

Principle of Non-maleficence Violation: Case Study
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Introduction: Introduction Pakistan is a developing country with 184 million populations; majority of people is living in rural areas, where literacy rate is very low. The burden of Chronic liver disease (CLD) is ...

Levine’s Conservation Model Theory: Case Study
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Introduction: According to Rafieian-Kopaei, Setorisi, Doudi, Baradaran, & Nasri (2014) atherosclerosis is a result of hyperlipidemia and oxidation, and it has been a principal factor of mortality in developed...

Epilepsy and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Case Study
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Introduction: People with chronic and complex conditions are usually characterized by complex causality, multiple risk factors, a long latency period, a prolonged course of illness that cannot been cured, and func...

Congestive Cardiac Failure Case Study
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Introduction: Congestive cardiac failure or congestive heart failure can be defined as the inability of the heart muscles to pump enough blood to all parts of the body, for example brain, liver and kidneys. Heart ...

Anaphylactic Shock Critical Care Case Study
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Introduction: Introduction (200 Words) In this project a medical case is going to be studied deeply with literature support as a case study. My topic is about an anaphylactic shock that happened to patient in hosp...