Concept of Activities of Living from Nursing Model of Activities of Living Cheryl Christenson Chamberlain College of Nursing Concept of Activities of Living Model of Nursing Based on Activities of Living Roper‚ Logan‚ and Tierney (2000) describe a model of nursing based on several concepts that are applicable to all realms of nursing. It has five major concepts that are all interrelated: Activities of living‚ lifespan‚ the dependence/independence continuum‚ individuality in living and individualizing
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question had been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). COPD comprises of a number of illnesses including chronic bronchitis and emphysema; in each of the conditions there is an obstruction to airflow (NICE 2010). COPD is a long term condition that is usually progressive and cannot be reversed‚ however in some cases there can be a degree of reversibility in a patients airways. The predominant cause of COPD is smoking (NICE 2010). The patients’ oxygen was to be administered
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Safety and Comfort Essay The purpose of this essay is to devise a plan of care for a patient. The plan must be in relation to an actual or potential problem as identified under the Activities of Living (ALs) using the Roper Logan and Tierney model of nursing. For this a patient has been selected after meeting with them in a ward setting in the geographical area. Adequate verbal consent defined by Kozier et al (2008) as ‘an informed decision making process’ has been obtained from the patient
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in assessing both Mr Murphy and Mrs Murphy within their home. This is appropriate due to Mr Murphy not being the only person who will suffer from psychological and physical hardship during this time in life. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by progressive airflow obstruction worsening exercise performance‚ and contributes
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at rest and could not mobilise as it caused him considerable respiratory distress. Jack called his daughter who in turn accompanied him to hospital. The model used to plan Jack’s care was the ’Activities of Living Model’ developed by Nancy Roper‚ Winifred Logan and Alison Tierney (1980). It is the model used on the ward as it facilitates individualised and holistic nursing care. In conjunction with the nursing process it is possible for nursing interventions to be planned‚ implemented and evaluated
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The nursing process is used to support models such as the Roper Logan and Tierney’s activities of daily living (ALs) in order to ensure effective care is provided for each individual patient. Other models such as Roy’s adaptation model and Peplau’s person centred approach can also be used however I feel in Albert’s situation using the ALs model will be most appropriate. According to Aggleton and Chalmers (2000) the nursing process encourages the nurse and the person being cared for to set goals.
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any of its parts (Crisp & Taylor 2009). The content of this topic will outline important issues that concern oxygen and respiratory disease. Respiratory disease is the term used for defining diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)‚ emphysema and asthma. Common signs and symptoms of respiratory disease are coughing‚ wheezing‚ dyspnoea and production of abnormal secretions like sputum and haemoptysis (Jenkins et al 2008). Respiratory disease accounted for 8.4% of the registered
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of a right middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarct. A CT brain was performed which showed loss of grey and white matter differentiation and acute infarct in the right middle cerebral artery territory. He was assessed under the Roper‚
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Introduction The author of this essay will be discussing a patient with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and will also be discussing the nursing care that will be received by the patient following a hypoglycaemic attack. The patient being described is a fictitious seventy year old lady called Mabel Gordon; she lives in a flat in a city centre with her husband Bert. Mabel has had type 2 diabetes for years which has been poorly controlled by medication and diet. Mabel’s diabetes has now progressively
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Electroconvulsive therapy 7 8. Newton‚ C. (1991) The Roper-Logan-Tierney: Model in Action. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan 9 10. OPSI: Data protection Act (1998). [online]. Available from: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980029_en_1. [Accessed 29/06/2010] 11 13. Roper‚ N.‚ Logan‚ W. & Tierney‚ A. (1986). Learning to use the Process of Nursing‚ Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. 14. Roper‚ N.‚ Logan‚ W.‚ and Tierney‚ A. J. (2000) The Roper‚ Logan and Tierney Model of Nursing based on the activities
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