She is awake, alert; she appears SOB with difficulties verbalizing her self. She is oxygen dependent at 2l/min. She states that she is not doing well but was unable to elaborate due to her SOB. I spoke with the facility nurse who reports that the patient has had multiple hospitalizations for her CHF and COPD. She was last hospitalized on 8/28/16 for SOB.…
This congestion is the cause of his shortness of breath. His increased blood…
James Petrovsky was at his usual state until 3/12/2017 evening, he refused to walk or stand. When staff assisted him to stand, he dropped to the floor. The nursing assessment was completed, he was afebrile and no distress was noted. On the morning of 3/13/2017, still he refused to walk or stand and nurse was notified. Up on nursing assessment, he had shortness of breath with wheezing and his SPO2 was around 84% on room air.…
Initial blood work including CBC, routine chemistries and cardiac biomarkers were all normal. Because of patient’s history and symptoms, he was admitted to hospital and monitored. His pain was treated with morphine and nitroglycerin. He was also given low-molecular weight heparin.…
Database and Assessment Table 1 – Physical Nursing Assessment Data GENERAL: Patient is an 88 year-old Caucasian male. Vital signs stable at 97.3°F, 82BPM, 22 breaths/min, 84/54mmHg, 100% on 1.5lL O2, 0/10 pain, patient weight 58kg. SKIN/HAIR/NAILS: Skin was thin and fragile, warm and moist, skin color slightly pale, skin tear on left upper arm measuring 3 inches, no bleeding or pain.…
He is not taking any medication and currently practicing conservative management due to financial problems. The patient is not working. He is an immigrant and married to the locals The patient is alert, conscious and tacypnic. He…
He is not taking any OCT or prescription medications, he has drug allergy to Codeine and BioFreeze O: Right Wrist: some redness and mild edema present around SL ligament area. Warm to touch, palpation produced pain. Full ROM, audible crepitus, Radial and ulnar pulse +3, Tinel's Sign test – TM…
Based on the history and findings, this patient is most likely having a Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) exacerbation. The most common challenge people face when approaching acute dyspnea is determining whether the patient is experiencing a COPD exacerbation or CHF exacerbation. Management for either is very different. Symptoms on presentation for both can be exactly the same. If you read carefully on this vignette, the scenario falls more likely toward being CHF-related than COPD-related, because of the physical findings of rales on auscultation, bilateral pitting edema, and jugulovenous jugular venous distention.…
Introduction Perfusion is a very important aspect to the human body. Perfusion is defined as the flow of blood through arteries and capillaries that deliver oxygen and nutrients to the cells and removing cellular waste from the body (Giddens, 2013, p. 148). For us to maintain optimal perfusion, we need are heart to generate sufficient cardiac output. This means transporting the blood through patent blood vessels to supply the tissues throughout the body. Impaired perfusion may occur when the blood supply is reduced or completely interrupted (Giddens, 2013, p. 148).…
Assessment Our Assessment findings include: • Onset – on and off for four months, comes and goes, worse lately. • Duration – shortness of breath on and off for few years almost constant with little activity the past four months. Recovery time one hour.…
TM denies any numbness, tingling sensation, or loss of movement in his right upper extremities. He is taking acetaminophen and naproxen as ordered. O: Right Shoulder: Reports increased in pain with adduction, extension and inward rotation of the right shoulder. Reports tenderness to AC joint with palpation reports increased…
He was recently diagnosed with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) due to smoking and was trying to quit his habit. Not only we did treat his shortness of breath, but we also educated him with solutions to help him successfully quit. I saw him a few times during my time at the clinic. Each time he was more energetic.…
Male, 40 years old, reports low back pain in the middle of the back near waist. The patient has had similar symptoms before, numbness and tingling sensation in the right foot. Both parents have hypercholesterolemia while his 65-year-old father has prostate cancer. The patient skips breakfast and eats at fast food restaurants twice every day. He uses 800mg of Ibuprofen every four hours.…
Today he comes in says he still has pain. He has been taking his amitriptyline not using the Mobic too much as it upset his stomach and he said it did not help very much and just looking for relief of his back pain. Overall, he says he is able to get through the day and do what he needs to do, it is worse in the morning when he gets up and says it takes him a little bit of time to get going and then it improves. States he has been doing light exercise, describes mainly various isolated weight on the machines available at the gym here.…
Patient Interview Paper The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive and mostly irreversible deteriorating condition of the function of the lung and disease of heterogeneous with comorbidities. According to World Health Organization (WHO, 2015) the COPD is going to be the third leading cause of death by 2030 and estimated approximately 80 million in worldwide. This is the general term used to explain the numeral conditions inclusive of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The knowledge of pathophysiology of COPD will help the nurses in nursing process to care of such patients.…