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.
In the identification of health problems, the
decision about how the problem will be addressed drives the
type of diagnosis (nursing, medical, or collaborative) that the
problem receives.
1. From the database obtained at admission, Mr. Monera has an
identified health problem of “forgetfulness.” His medical
diagnosis is early-onset dementia. Based on the definitions,
discuss how the nursing diagnoses can be determined from the
health issue of “forgetfulness” and the collaborative problems
from the medical diagnosis of dementia.
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.
In the identification of health problems, the
decision about how the problem will be addressed drives the
type of diagnosis (nursing, medical, or collaborative) that the
problem receives.
1. From the database obtained at admission, Mr. Monera has an
identified health problem of “forgetfulness.” His medical
diagnosis is early-onset dementia. Based on the definitions,
discuss how the nursing diagnoses can be determined from the
health issue of “forgetfulness” and the collaborative problems
from the medical diagnosis of dementia.