a patient having undergone a unilateral total knee replacement‚ a patient whom I have cared for. I will discuss how the patient’s needs were assessed by the nursing team‚ and I will identify the main problems the patient will face. The use of Roper‚ Logan and Tierney’s Activities of Living (2001) will be used as the nursing model in this essay‚ it is appropriate for use as this model was the one used by the nurses in the hospital to ensure holistic care of the patients. This nursing model has been
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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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In England alone in 2011 there were 14.9 million finished patient admission episodes in National Health Service hospitals with 5.2 million being emergency admissions (The Health and Social Care Information Centre‚ 2012). It may seem such a large number however nurses must treat each patient in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct which writes that nurses must treat patients as individuals (NMC‚ 2008). Holland‚ Jenkins‚ Solomon and Whittam (2008) claims a successful
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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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Accessed on March 25 2011. NICE (2003) Chronic heart failure: management of chronic heart failure in adults in primary and secondary care. Clinical Guideline 5. London: NICE‚ 2003. www.nice.org.uk NMC (2008) The Code O’Connor M. (2002) Using the Roper‚ Logan and Tierney Model in a Neonatal ICU. Nursing Times. May 1st 2002. http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice/199604.article Accessed on April 4th 2011. Ogden (2004) Health Psychology Papanikolaou P. Lyne P. Anthony D. (2006) Risk Assessment
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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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I had not had in previous placements. My preceptor had explained to me the process involved in care planning for a patient on the unit‚ the doctor will do the majority of the assessment‚ the nurse carries out the risk assessment and completes Roper Logan and Tierney nursing assessment which is the nursing model used by the Louth/Meath services. The nurse also carries out an admission checklist. When the patient has been admitted and the nurse has gathered all the relevant information they will
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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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For the purpose of this essay the Kolb’s model of reflection (1984) has been chosen as a guide to reflect on administration of oxygen therapy. Administration of oxygen therapy is the aspect of nursing practice that I selected as a result of completing the case-based learning scenarios. I will explain how the administration of oxygen therapy can have an effect on a patient’s activities of daily living (ADL)‚ including some of the psychological and ethical issues. Breathing is the selected ADL that
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