CHEST PAIN Chest Pain Overview If you are having severe pain‚ crushing‚ squeezing‚ or pressure in your chest that lasts more than a few minutes‚ or if the pain moves into your neck‚ left shoulder‚ arm‚ or jaw‚ go immediately to a hospital emergency department. Chest pain is one of the most frightening symptoms a person can have. It is sometimes difficult even for a doctor or other medical professional to tell what is causing chest pain and whether it is life-threatening. * Any part of the
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has to be made quickly to prevent further damage or death. Patients usually get medical attention when they experience chest pain. Many patients assume the chest pain is from indigestion or acid peptic symptoms. These patients waste time with antacids. Chest pain may be accompanied with vomiting‚ sweating and breathlessness. It is known that 15-20% of heart attacks can be painless especially in diabetics and elderly. Severe chest pain can be caused by several other issues and it needs to be ruled
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interpersonal skills in relation to my position as a nurse in a busy critical care unit. It will primarily focus on one particular patient and the care they received by myself in their immediate post operative period. In accordance with the NMC’s code of professional conduct names will not be used to protect the patient’s confidentiality. NMC (2008). Reflection is an important tool for all health care practitioners. It can improve our skills and help us understand the choices we make while
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Most likely diagnosis considering the clinical picture Localised chest pain over the sternum is a common symptom and can be an indicator of a large assembly of conditions. Commonly seen in cardiac diseases including angina pectoris‚ myocardial infarction and pericarditis (Patient.info‚ 2017). As well as in disorders of the gastroesophageal‚ psychiatric and pulmonary diseases; pneumothorax‚ gastro-oesophageal reflux disease‚ pleurisy‚ panic attack and pulmonary embolism (Kaski‚ 2016; Eslick‚ Jones
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Reflection based on Gibbs’ model of reflection (Gibbs‚ 1988) Description: I spent a week with other professionals from the Health Professions Council. The aim was to learn from each other to enable us to become better professionals and to help with our individual learning. the session also gave me an insight into how we work together with other professional groups in practice (Miller and Freeman‚ 2007). For this reflection I shall be reflecting on teams roles. As a professional I will need
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Chest pain or pressure that patients feel is commonly called angina. This usually occurs as a symptom of a problem with the heart and its blood supply. There are two types of angina called stable and unstable. Stable angina is where a person is feeling pain‚ chest pressure‚ or radiant pain in left arm and back with exertion. The more serious type is unstable angina‚ which means having those symptoms even at rest. There is a system of arteries that supply oxygen rich blood to the myocardium‚ or heart
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Nursing Care Plan for Chest Pain NURSING DIAGNOSIS OUTCOME/GOALS INTERVENTIONS EVALUATION Acute chest pain related to ischemic cardiomyopathy as evidenced by tightness in chest. Patient will be chest pain free for duration of shift. Assess for chest pain q 4 hours during shift. Monitor vital signs q 4 hours during shift. Educate patient on importance of lifestyle modifications such as weight loss. Goal was met. Pt was chest pain free during shift. NURSING DIAGNOSIS
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Therefore I have decided to follow the Gibbs model of reflection in which I broke the case down systematically and reviewed it in phases (Lia‚ 2016). By using this model of reflection‚ I was able to recap what happened and how I felt throughout it all and I was able to evaluate and analyse my practice to try and justify the reasons for things happening as they did (Lia‚ 2016). Based on these findings I could create an action plan which would help me improve patient care to provide them with a better
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GIBBS REFLECTIVE CYCLE Description (What happened?) Action Plan (If it arose again what would you do?) Feelings (What were you thinking & feeling?) Conclusion Evaluation (What was good & bad about the experience?) Description (What sense can you make of the situation?) (Gibbs 1998) Stage 1: Description of the event Describe in detail the event you are reflecting on. Include e.g. where were you; who else was there; why were you there; what were you doing; what were other people doing;
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Gibbs model touches all aspects of the past incidents and which contains description‚ feeling‚ evaluation‚ analysis and conclusion. I would need to descript by understanding what had happened in the past and review the causes and actual outcomes as it is related to an incident that is being reflected upon. Next‚ based on my description I can determine if the incident was a good or a bad one and at the same time I would be able to understand the actual factors that contributed to my feelings. Basically
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