history of smoking or drinking. SUBJECTIVE DATA: what the patient says. How the patient tells you they’re feeling, if there is pain, what the patient tell you the duration of the pain is, when it started, what makes it better, what makes it worse. Medication history of the patient, look at the patient social economical […]

recovering from pneumonia Threaded Discussion #4 Family   Scenario: Family An 83, year old woman is recovering from pneumonia. She has Alzheimer’s disease and has become increasingly hostile and unmanageable in the home setting. Her 65, year old daughter is distraught about the idea of placing her mother in a long term care facility but […]

Week 4: Workarounds and Their Implications for Patient Safety 1 1. What is a workaround? Identify a workaround (specific to technology used in a hospital setting) that you have used or perhaps seen someone else use, and analyze why you feel this risk-taking behavior was chosen over behavior that conforms to a safety culture. What […]

model of culturally competent nursing care Describe how you used the chosen model of culturally competent nursing care to develop interview questions Summarize the interview questions used and the answers received, and address the following: With what culture does the person identify? How does this person define/perceive health and illness and how is this affected by […]

chief complaint of shortness of breath on exertion A 53-year-old presents after admission to the general medical/surgical hospital ward. With a chief complaint of shortness of breath on exertion. She reports that she was seen for similar symptoms previously at her primary care physician’s office six months ago. At that time, she was diagnosed with […]