Care Study Y2
Nursing care study
M10/558712
Catherine Williams
27/06/2011
SHN/252
Word Count: 4,270
Introduction:
This assignment will mainly focus on the immediate post operative care following a patient having undergone a unilateral total knee replacement.
The aim of this assignment is to enable me as a student nurse to develop the knowledge needed to understand the role the nurse undertakes in providing holistic care for a patient. I will look at the nurse’s role in the postoperative care of 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 adapted by the recovery nursing staff, for use in the initial recovery phase of this patient’s stay in hospital. The nursing assessments used will first be discussed, and a problem that the patient faced will be identified. The care that the nurses provided for the patient regarding this problem will then be analysed using relevant up-to-date literature.
Roper, Logan and Tierney’s (2000) 12 activities of daily living model will be used to assess the patient. Nursing models are important because they offer a framework to help guide nurses through the stages of the problem solving approach. Nursing models help those who use them to understand fully what they are doing and why they are doing it (Aggleton and Chalmers, 2000)
The nursing process framework plays an important part in patient assessment and care. This is the process of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating (APIE) and was introduced into nursing by Yura and Walsh (1967). They called it the nursing process
M10/558712
Catherine Williams
27/06/2011
SHN/252
Word Count: 4,270
Introduction:
This assignment will mainly focus on the immediate post operative care following a patient having undergone a unilateral total knee replacement.
The aim of this assignment is to enable me as a student nurse to develop the knowledge needed to understand the role the nurse undertakes in providing holistic care for a patient. I will look at the nurse’s role in the postoperative care of 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 adapted by the recovery nursing staff, for use in the initial recovery phase of this patient’s stay in hospital. The nursing assessments used will first be discussed, and a problem that the patient faced will be identified. The care that the nurses provided for the patient regarding this problem will then be analysed using relevant up-to-date literature.
Roper, Logan and Tierney’s (2000) 12 activities of daily living model will be used to assess the patient. Nursing models are important because they offer a framework to help guide nurses through the stages of the problem solving approach. Nursing models help those who use them to understand fully what they are doing and why they are doing it (Aggleton and Chalmers, 2000)
The nursing process framework plays an important part in patient assessment and care. This is the process of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating (APIE) and was introduced into nursing by Yura and Walsh (1967). They called it the nursing process