Nursing Case Studies

Case Study: Diabetic Retinopathy
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Introduction: Diabetic retinopathy is the most severe of the several ocular complications of diabetes (Frank, 2004). It has few visual or ophthalmic symptoms until visual loss develops (Davis, 1998). Studies such a...

Case Study On Dementia: End Of Life Decisions
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Introduction: Ms. Long has been admitted to a skilled nursing home after four months in the hospital, and has been assigned a public guardian since she is no longer able to make life decisions on her own. The en...

Holistic Case Study On A Patient With Diabetes
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Introduction: This is a case commentary about a diabetic patient, in regards to the patient interviewed in a clinic setting. The case is studied in a holistic manner, where medical and non-medical aspects were full...

Case Study On A Breakdown Of Communication
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Introduction: Peter Roy Gillam died as a result of sepsis and pulmonary thrombo-emboli complicating a ruptured cerebral artery aneurysm with subarachnoid haemorrhage. The coroner’s report outlines the backgr...

Case Study of an acute MI event
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Introduction: United Kingdom (UK) has a high rate of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) (National Service Frame, (NSF)2000) among developed countries, with CHD being the most common cause of death in England and Wales an...

Case study and history of dental abscess
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Introduction: HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: Mr. A028 is a 24 year old male presenting with a dental abscess he has had for 9 days. He had two episodes of dental abscesses prior for which he was treated. He was admitt...

Case Study: Elderly Person With Diabetes
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Introduction: This is a case commentary about a diabetic patient, in regards to the patient interviewed in a clinic setting. The case is studied in a holistic manner, where medical and non-medical aspects were full...

Case Study: Pregnancy Gestational Diabetes
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Introduction: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as glucose intolerance of variable severity, with onset or first recognised during pregnancy1. This definition includes women whose blood glucose goes ba...

Case study of Autonomy VS Beneficence
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Introduction: Going through end of the life experience and saying good by forever to a loved one both are very sensitive issues. A 70 years old female cancer patient is counting her last breaths in oncology departm...

Case Study Of A Complicated UTI
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Introduction: PBL Scenario: A young woman with a complicated urinary tract infection Miss KP was a 24-year-old hospital cleaner with Type 1 diabetes which she had developed at the age of 18. Her usual treatment was...

Congestive Cardiac Failure Case Study
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Introduction: Mr. Sam Toscana is a 70 year old client admitted to the ward with congestive cardiac failure (CCF). The client states that he has had increasing SOB over the last 3 days and his feet are as swollen as...

Case study of health and social care degree
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Introduction: The aim of this assignment is to write a development account and will ensure to give a clear view of my development since staring on the foundation degree in health and social care. I work as a Commu...

Case study: Nosocomial Infections
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Introduction: Nosocomial infections still remain the most frequent complications in hospitalized patients. They are the fourth most common cause of mortality in the United States after the cardiovascular system dis...

Case Study: Cerebrovascular Disorders
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Introduction: Kaorou Kashin, a 74-year-old patient, is admitted to the telemetry unit with the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. The patient is experiencing paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with a controlled ventri...

Case Study: Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes
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Introduction: Mary is 19 old female as she just come for higher studies in university. She was diagnosed diabetes type 1 at the age of 11. Her objective data shows the symptoms of uncontrolled diabetes. Diabetes ha...

Side effects and treatments of asthma | Case study
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Introduction: According to the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Ms V was on step 2 in the management of chronic asthma. She was on MDI Salbutamol 2 puffs when required and MDI Budesonide 200 mcg ...

Case Study: Cerebrovascular accident
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Introduction: Cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) are caused by hypertension mainly and in turn it causes many complications making handling the CVA patients particularly difficult. In this article, I will cover my ref...

Case Study: Patient With Shortness Of Breath
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Introduction: Patient Identity The patient is a 54 year old female, Mrs SK who is a housewife with a BMI of 25.7kg/m2. Presenting Complaints She was brought in to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department, c...

Path Goal Theory Case Study
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Introduction: In the path-theory preferring to “Jeanne Lewis case”, she used several behavior techniques to influence her staff. The staff behavior to the techniques will be explained in relation to pat...

Case Study: Child with Rash and Fever
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Introduction: Patient consultation This consultation describes a situation whereby the author was asked to review a child with pyrexia and rash who also had a three day history of earache with discharge. The parent...

Diabetes Case Study Assignment
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Introduction: Empowerment is a multidimensional construct applicable to individuals, organizations, and neighbourhoods (Rappaport, 1987). It is viewed as a construct rather than a concept because it is not directly...

Mental Health Service User Case Study
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Introduction: 1.1 “Decision making by nurses is now firmly established in practice, policy and educational agendas. New constantly evolving, roles, and a policy context that is challenging traditional p...

Asthma Case Study Essay
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Introduction: This essay is written as a case study referring to a patient from my practice area. As I will be reflecting on my practice in relation to the case study, use will be made of first person writing where...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Case Study
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Introduction: CASE STUDY : COPD This piece of work will explore the comprehensively physical examination, differential diagnosis and various diagnostic tests to confirm the disease condition that is CHRONIC OBS...

COPD Exacerbation Case Study
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Introduction: Introduction: A COPD exacerbation can be defined as “an event in the natural course of the disease characterized by a change in the patient’s baseline dyspnea, cough, and/or sputum, that i...