Registered Nurse Case Study In The Emergency Department (ED) & Medical and Surgical History - Nursing Assignment Help

Download Solution Order New Solution
Assignment Task

 

Emergency Department (ED)

You are a Registered Nurse working in the Emergency Department (ED) of a rural hospital. The nearest Base Hospital is 100km away. There is currently a medical officer in the Emergency department. During your afternoon shift at 5pm, a 66-year- old lady, Doris Evans, is brought into ED by her husband. DOB: 12/11/1955. 
Initial Assessment 
Doris is short of breath, pale and cyanosed. She is speaking to you in short sentences while holding her chest. She is coughing most of the time. 
SAMPLE: Signs & Symptoms/ Chief complaint 

  • Doris is complaining of a sharp/ stabbing chest pain, about 6/10, dyspnoea (difficulty breathing) and a productive cough. General muscle pain. These symptoms started about two to three days ago. She has been taking Paracetamol for the pain. She thought the pain was going to ease until yesterday when she started coughing producing yellowish sputum. 
  • Allergies
  • Allergy to Penicillin – Rash reaction Medications 
  • Telmisartan 40mg orally daily Rosuvastatin 10mg orally nocte Temazepam 10mg orally nocte 
  • Past Medical and Surgical History 
  • Hypertension 
  • Hypercholesterolaemia 
  • Insomnia 
  • Doris stopped smoking 2 years ago. Has been a smoker since her teenage 
  • years. 
  • No-one has had COVID19 in the family. 
  • Positive Family History of heart disease – Father died aged 52 
  • Hysterectomy four years ago 
  • Last oral intake 
     

 


This Nursing Assignment has been solved by our Nursing Experts at My Uni Paper. Our Assignment Writing Experts are efficient to provide a fresh solution to this question. We are serving more than 10000+Students in Australia, UK & US by helping them to score HD in their academics. Our Experts are well trained to follow all marking rubrics & referencing style.

Be it a used or new solution, the quality of the work submitted by our assignment Experts remains unhampered. You may continue to expect the same or even better quality with the used and new assignment solution files respectively. There’s one thing to be noticed that you could choose one between the two and acquire an HD either way. You could choose a new assignment solution file to get yourself an exclusive, plagiarism (with free Turnitin file), expert quality assignment or order an old solution file that was considered worthy of the highest distinction.

Get It Done! Today

Country
Applicable Time Zone is AEST [Sydney, NSW] (GMT+11)
+

Every Assignment. Every Solution. Instantly. Deadline Ahead? Grab Your Sample Now.