For my interview, I asked my neighbor if she wouldn’t mind being interviewed about her life and health history. She didn’t hesitate with a “sure, I’ll gladly sit with you and talk!” We decided to do this interview over Sunday dinner with our families. I explain to her that at any time she needed to stop, or didn’t feel comfortable answering questions to let me know and it was perfectly okay. However, I soon realized that was not going to be a problem because she talked to me like she was an opened book! First off, I interviewed a sixty-eight-year-old African American female from Huston, Texas who prefers I call her Mrs. Debra. Mrs. Debra is a Christian woman, although in her words “doesn’t follow the religion to a T.” She has lived in the
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Debra will agree on ROM exercises to her hands with a main emphasis on her fingers 3x’s a day with a follow up on progress on April 2, 2017. The interventions would be to help Mrs. Debra find exercises appropriate for her fingers, to discuss realistic goal settings for changes in health maintenance, to verbally educate to her the symptoms of advanced progression of arthritis in joints, and help her identify a good time in the day to perform the exercises. I would then evaluate those interventions by setting realistic goals to performing ROM at time of waking up and going to bed, and further education on the reasoning for ROM in efforts to promote health maintenance.
One article I found that correlates to one of my diagnosis is called “A Nurse's Perspective on Arthritis in Older Adults”. In this article, the nurse is trying to increase both awareness and knowledge of arthritis (Roberts, Hootman, Helmick, & Brady, 2012). That this disease should be recognized as just as devastating as a diagnosis of COPD or heart disease because of its debilitating effects on a person’s life. It continues to go on and explain that health care providers and nurses should pay more attention to this disease and provide better health promotion for it to
Debra will agree on ROM exercises to her hands with a main emphasis on her fingers 3x’s a day with a follow up on progress on April 2, 2017. The interventions would be to help Mrs. Debra find exercises appropriate for her fingers, to discuss realistic goal settings for changes in health maintenance, to verbally educate to her the symptoms of advanced progression of arthritis in joints, and help her identify a good time in the day to perform the exercises. I would then evaluate those interventions by setting realistic goals to performing ROM at time of waking up and going to bed, and further education on the reasoning for ROM in efforts to promote health maintenance.
One article I found that correlates to one of my diagnosis is called “A Nurse's Perspective on Arthritis in Older Adults”. In this article, the nurse is trying to increase both awareness and knowledge of arthritis (Roberts, Hootman, Helmick, & Brady, 2012). That this disease should be recognized as just as devastating as a diagnosis of COPD or heart disease because of its debilitating effects on a person’s life. It continues to go on and explain that health care providers and nurses should pay more attention to this disease and provide better health promotion for it to