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Need an research paper on nursing process for pneumonia. Needs to be 6 pages. Please no plagiarism.
Need an research paper on nursing process for pneumonia. Needs to be 6 pages. Please no plagiarism. There are basically five stages of the nursing process (Nettina, 2006). They are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. The relationship between a nurse and a patient is of therapeutic nature and based on the provision of care, guidance and assistance of the patient (Neal, 2007). In this essay, the nursing process of a patient with multiple health problems and currently admitted for pneumonia will be described. Critical thinking and analysis will be used during the nursing process because these are very essential attributes of competent nursing care (Barrett et al, 2009).
A careful history of the patient was taken, including past history and drug history. This included elucidation of appropriate history pertaining to the chronic disorders and the health status of 70-year-old Robbins, a widower, who lives in the rural Victoria coast with his daughter and is a known patient of advanced prostate cancer on hormone therapy. He has bone metastases and hence is on biphonates. He, however, is an active person. His current problems are incontinence of urine, dementia, ischemic heart disease and breathing difficulty due to pulmonary fibrosis. He is now admitted for evaluation and management of pneumonia.
The presenting complaints with which Robbins was admitted were fever, cough and difficulty in breathing. The cough was productive with yellowish sputum. fever was high and intermittent. On examination, Robbins was febrile (102 degrees F) and toxic. He had tachycardia (20 per minute), tachypnoea (28 per minute) and hypertension (140/90mmHg). Saturations were 88 percent in room air. He was, however, conscious, alert and oriented. Chest examination revealed crepitations mainly in the right lower lobe with a few rhonchi and crepitations dispersed all over the lung. Other systems examination was unremarkable.
The psychosocial response to the disease was reviewed along with resources available and the social support .network present. .
