NUR116 - Preparation for Practice Assignment - USC

Assignment Task

Case study

Today is Monday September 2023, you are a student nurse on your clinical placement at the local community healthcare centre. The Registered Nurse has asked you to do a health assessment on your next patient.

Billie Orkins identifies as Aboriginal. Billie is here for a routine check-up and for their yearly flu vaccine, despite not liking needles. Billie tells you they have been getting headaches, dizziness, and fevers. Billie tells you that their heartbeat feels faster than normal.

Billie reports that they have been more thirsty than normal, but not eating as much, but they are drinking a lot of soft drinks. Billie tells you they had runny poo three times already today.

Billie tells you that they have worked all over the country, in both underground and open-cut mining. Billie also shares that they are finding it difficult to pick up more work since the Capricorn copper mine was flooded in March.

Billie tells you that they have been feeling irritable and anxious about finding work and not living in their own home and that they are staying with friends locally, while Billie’s own house is rented out until January next year.

Upon checking Billie’s vital signs are as follows: Temperature 37.5; Pulse 105; Respiratory 16; BP 120/80; 02 Sat 98%. The GCS is 15; pain score 0/10, and today’s ECG is tachycardic yet a normal sinus rhythm.

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