Public Health Nursing Case Study
The manual provided will provide help and guidance for the public health nurses in fulfilling her role in the management, care and support of client requiring complex care in the community setting.
In Ireland Public health nurses have been providing nursing and midwifery care to people and their families in the community for years. Public health nurses are viewed as possessing a wide range of skills and knowledge in caring for clients across their lifespan. Their role varies from routine visits to providing complex care to clients in their homes.
There are numerous conditions that require extensive care in the community however using both personal and professional judgement clients suffering from MS have been identified as being a group that require …show more content…
Common age of onset is between 20 and 40 years of age. Although MS is a progressive life changing disease it is not life-threatening.
Words such as degenerative, progressive and chronic are commonly used in literature when describing the neurological disease that is MS.
MS is a disease of the central nervous system caused by a degeneration of the myelin sheath that insulates the nerves who’s function are to carry nerve impulses around the body. This inevitably results in dysfunction of neurological impulses and therefore neurological symptoms. (Goodman & Samkoff 2014)
It is described as being an immune mediated disease with both genetic and environmental factors influencing its development. (Glehn et al 2015) Symptoms of MS varies from person to person and management of such symptoms are key to those diagnosed with MS continuing to live a normal everyday life for as long as possible.
There are four stages of the disease progress; relapsing remitting, primary progressive, secondary progressive and progressive relapsing. (Gaby
In Ireland Public health nurses have been providing nursing and midwifery care to people and their families in the community for years. Public health nurses are viewed as possessing a wide range of skills and knowledge in caring for clients across their lifespan. Their role varies from routine visits to providing complex care to clients in their homes.
There are numerous conditions that require extensive care in the community however using both personal and professional judgement clients suffering from MS have been identified as being a group that require …show more content…
Common age of onset is between 20 and 40 years of age. Although MS is a progressive life changing disease it is not life-threatening.
Words such as degenerative, progressive and chronic are commonly used in literature when describing the neurological disease that is MS.
MS is a disease of the central nervous system caused by a degeneration of the myelin sheath that insulates the nerves who’s function are to carry nerve impulses around the body. This inevitably results in dysfunction of neurological impulses and therefore neurological symptoms. (Goodman & Samkoff 2014)
It is described as being an immune mediated disease with both genetic and environmental factors influencing its development. (Glehn et al 2015) Symptoms of MS varies from person to person and management of such symptoms are key to those diagnosed with MS continuing to live a normal everyday life for as long as possible.
There are four stages of the disease progress; relapsing remitting, primary progressive, secondary progressive and progressive relapsing. (Gaby