John is a 58-Year Old Male with Advanced Lung Cancer Case Study - Medical Science Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Task:

Background:

• Patient name: John Smith
• Age: 58
• Next of Kin: Susan Smith (wife). John has a daughter (Jane, 31) who lives in Los Angeles. 
• Consultant: Dr Parry.
• Diagnosis: Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with bone and liver metastases. Diagnosed March 2017. Previously treated with chemotherapy and palliative radiotherapy.  

Patient note:

• John is a 58-year old male with advanced lung cancer. He has been an inpatient on Medical Ward 2 for five days. You are the nurse responsible for his care. John was admitted initially for treatment of a chest infection and symptom management of severe back pain and right-sided abdominal pain. 
• On admission he was commenced on IV antibiotics for his chest infection and was reviewed by the palliative care nurse specialist who increased the dose of his analgesics for pain control. Since admission, John's condition has progressively worsened and he is now in the deteriorating palliative care phase of his illness. John and Susan have spoken at length with medical and nursing staff about his wishes for end-of-life care. John has expressed his wish to go home with a package of care designed to enable John to die at home and to support Susan and Jane. Their daughter Jane is on her way home from Los Angeles and is hoping to arrive by the end of the week. An initial clinical assessment was conducted by the consulting palliative care nurse who visited John on the medical ward. This information is to be used in the referral to the community palliative care nursing team. 
• His wife is anxious about John's breathing and if it will worsen. She also wants to know how long John might have left to live as she is anxious their daughter Jane could miss saying goodbye to her father. John was commenced on a syringe driver of hydromorphone 20mg and midazolam 10mg to help manage his symptoms. 

Vital Sign:

His last vital signs were taken at 0800 today:

• BP: 114/58 mmHg
• HR: 90 bpm
• RR: 20 bpm
• Temp: 35.8
• SpO2: 94%

Regular Medication:

• Hydromorphone 20mg + midazolam 10mg mixed in a syringe driver for pain/symptom management 24-hours. 
• Movical 2 sachet PO daily

PRN Medication:

• Hydromorphine 0.5mg subcut 4 hourly PRN pain/breathlessness
• Midazolam 5mg subcut 4 hourly PRN anxiety/agitation/breathlessness
• Coloxy and Senna 2 tabs tds PRN constipation
• Microlax enema nocte.

Task Format:

Task length: 1500 words (40% of the final grade for this unit). 

This is to be written in essay format. You may use headings if you wish (which are not included in the overall word count).

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