Nursing Intervention: A Case Study

Nurses must be able to add to previous therapy modalities and build toward the improvement and quality-of -life for the patient. The best nursing intervention is one that is molded for that specific patient and not one that is from a rigid algorithm. The variety of tools that nurses can use such as webinar interactive games, educational handouts, educational medical sites for patients and providers to access, digital cameras, examination cameras, video, and computer generated questionnaires and more have a place in the treatment plan. Other strategies to use are to encourage the rural geriatric patient, that play and exercise therapy are great for adults and allows the endorphins to flood the mind which helps with over-all mental health well-being. …show more content…
Fortney, et al., (2013), revealed practice-based collaborative care has been shown to improve depression outcomes in numerous randomized effectiveness trials. This study goes on to show that training on-site nurses about depression can improve outcomes through encouraging activities for the patients that are rewarding and social. Another study by Fortney, Burgess, Bosworth, Booth, and Kaboli (2011), shows that over a period of time the perceived access and actual access changes in the minds of patients when using telemedicine. In other words, patients feel that they are receiving more care simply by having phone and computer access to the provider(s). This study also showed that educating the providers on cultural needs by matching patients up with a provider that can speak their language or understand their culture is best-evidence