Mr. Robin Monera, an 81-year-old, is a new admission from the local hospital to your long-term care facility. After Mr.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:03 am
Mr. Robin Monera, an 81-year-old, is a new admission from
the local hospital to your long-term care facility. After Mr.
Monera’s last bout with pneumonia and congestive heart
failure, his wife of 59 years has decided she is no longer
able to care for him at home. Mrs. Monera states, “He has just
gotten too weak and can’t help me care for him. I am so afraid
he will fall and hurt himself. I am so worn out trying to
care for him myself. I have to bathe him and remind him
to eat; sometimes I’ve had to feed him myself or he
won’t eat. He can be so forgetful. I hope I am making
the right decision for him, because he never wanted to
go into a nursing home.” During this phase of the nursing
process you will analyze the assessment data obtained on Mr.
Monera upon admission to your long-term care facility to
identify his health status, including strengths, problems, and
factors contributing to the problems. An abbreviated
admission database is provided for you to facilitate your
work through the diagnostic process and formation of the
pertinent nursing diagnoses for Mr. Monera.
1. Why is the diagnostic phase of the nursing process
critical to the development of the plan of care?
2. Explain how nursing diagnoses and the use of nursing
diagnostic labels help validate nursing as a profession.
the local hospital to your long-term care facility. After Mr.
Monera’s last bout with pneumonia and congestive heart
failure, his wife of 59 years has decided she is no longer
able to care for him at home. Mrs. Monera states, “He has just
gotten too weak and can’t help me care for him. I am so afraid
he will fall and hurt himself. I am so worn out trying to
care for him myself. I have to bathe him and remind him
to eat; sometimes I’ve had to feed him myself or he
won’t eat. He can be so forgetful. I hope I am making
the right decision for him, because he never wanted to
go into a nursing home.” During this phase of the nursing
process you will analyze the assessment data obtained on Mr.
Monera upon admission to your long-term care facility to
identify his health status, including strengths, problems, and
factors contributing to the problems. An abbreviated
admission database is provided for you to facilitate your
work through the diagnostic process and formation of the
pertinent nursing diagnoses for Mr. Monera.
1. Why is the diagnostic phase of the nursing process
critical to the development of the plan of care?
2. Explain how nursing diagnoses and the use of nursing
diagnostic labels help validate nursing as a profession.