Mr. S’ main health issue would have to be social isolation. Although he is making some improvement in being more social with the case manager and student nurse; he still has no social support from family or friends, and this leads him to have trouble in social functioning, role functioning, self-care and finding a place to live.
Nursing Hypothesis
Social Isolation can be detrimental to a person’s health. One interesting finding points out that social isolation can have just as much of an impact on mortality as smoking, and even greater impact on other traditional clinical risk factors (Pantell et al., 2013). Isolation’s impact can be biological in origin: isolated individuals have increased expression of genes relating to proinflammatory cytokine …show more content…
S into an apartment, before he gets kicked out of the Booth, is of utmost importance. A roof over one’s head, is important as it remedies the need to focus on concerns of survival, and instead lets the patient focus on recovery oriented goals, like independence (Kirst,
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Zerger, Harris, Plenert, & Stergiopoulos, 2014). Kirst et al. (2014), also state how the safety of having a place to live can foster better opportunities to sleep, reflect and care for a patient’s physical and mental health; repairing lost or damaged relationships, and building new healthy relationships as well, which can be beneficial to Mr. S lacking social network. In addition, Kirst et al. (2014), state that giving patients control over their living space can be seen as the key to overcoming social isolation. All of these benefits were discussed with Mr.S. It was important to focus on Mr.S’ strengths rather than on his weaknesses (Gerber, 2013). In addition, Gerber (2013), emphasizes the importance of prioritizing problems which the Projet Suivi Communautaire’s interview process seeks to address by helping the patient improve functional skills such as: learning how to shop for groceries, and making healthy decisions to help with independent living, which was all done with Mr. S (Projet Suivi Communautaire, 2015). Furthermore, Gerber (2013), also pushes the importance …show more content…
S 8 insight, interest and understanding into the facts given to him. When discussing strengths, Mr. S was able to list his ability to cook, the way he maintains his room at the booth, and his ability to come to appointments and seek help as essential to future success. Although, Mr. S states that he believes it will be difficult for him to go shopping for food as he has never done this before independently, and only has a vague recollection of doing so with his mother; by reassuring Mr. S that the interview process would involve getting him help in functional and social tasks, that involve things such as this, he showed understanding of the interview’s importance showing good insight once again. Finally, upon discussing with Mr. S about motivations to find work and/or go to school, Mr. S was surprisingly very open stating that he would like to work at a place like the Wal-Mart he used to work at, as he had good memories of his work experience there. He also expressed interesting in going to a trade school to learn how to be a PAB; both aspirations were encouraged, and patient seemed to be content discussing them. The form for the Projet was completed collaboratively,
Nursing Hypothesis
Social Isolation can be detrimental to a person’s health. One interesting finding points out that social isolation can have just as much of an impact on mortality as smoking, and even greater impact on other traditional clinical risk factors (Pantell et al., 2013). Isolation’s impact can be biological in origin: isolated individuals have increased expression of genes relating to proinflammatory cytokine …show more content…
S into an apartment, before he gets kicked out of the Booth, is of utmost importance. A roof over one’s head, is important as it remedies the need to focus on concerns of survival, and instead lets the patient focus on recovery oriented goals, like independence (Kirst,
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Zerger, Harris, Plenert, & Stergiopoulos, 2014). Kirst et al. (2014), also state how the safety of having a place to live can foster better opportunities to sleep, reflect and care for a patient’s physical and mental health; repairing lost or damaged relationships, and building new healthy relationships as well, which can be beneficial to Mr. S lacking social network. In addition, Kirst et al. (2014), state that giving patients control over their living space can be seen as the key to overcoming social isolation. All of these benefits were discussed with Mr.S. It was important to focus on Mr.S’ strengths rather than on his weaknesses (Gerber, 2013). In addition, Gerber (2013), emphasizes the importance of prioritizing problems which the Projet Suivi Communautaire’s interview process seeks to address by helping the patient improve functional skills such as: learning how to shop for groceries, and making healthy decisions to help with independent living, which was all done with Mr. S (Projet Suivi Communautaire, 2015). Furthermore, Gerber (2013), also pushes the importance …show more content…
S 8 insight, interest and understanding into the facts given to him. When discussing strengths, Mr. S was able to list his ability to cook, the way he maintains his room at the booth, and his ability to come to appointments and seek help as essential to future success. Although, Mr. S states that he believes it will be difficult for him to go shopping for food as he has never done this before independently, and only has a vague recollection of doing so with his mother; by reassuring Mr. S that the interview process would involve getting him help in functional and social tasks, that involve things such as this, he showed understanding of the interview’s importance showing good insight once again. Finally, upon discussing with Mr. S about motivations to find work and/or go to school, Mr. S was surprisingly very open stating that he would like to work at a place like the Wal-Mart he used to work at, as he had good memories of his work experience there. He also expressed interesting in going to a trade school to learn how to be a PAB; both aspirations were encouraged, and patient seemed to be content discussing them. The form for the Projet was completed collaboratively,