Nursing situation

Each discussion board group will select a nursing situation that a member has personally, experienced. The nursing situation will be related to one of various regions of the body studied during the semester. Each group will develop a presentation of the nursing situation. The presentation should include the nursing situation, how you came to know the patient as a caring person through the multiple ways of knowing, and provide at least two nursing interventions. The PowerPoint presentation should no more than 15 slides (including title and reference slides). Do not copy information from the internet, use your own words to outline the essential ideas you want to convey. The presentation will be presented by a representative from each group on Blackboard collaborate (see class schedule). The entire class is expected to attend the Blackboard collaborate session and learn from their colleagues.

Please see rubric for this assignment

Nursing Situation	Nursing Situation: Describe the nursing situation and caring between nurse and nursed.
Nurse Theorist	Nursing Theorist: Discuss the nursing theorist, rationale for selection, and how this theorist guides your calls/responses.
Ways of Knowing	Ways of Knowing: Discuss the ways of knowing in relation to the assessment of the nursing situation.
Intervention	Intervention: Identify at least 2 calls from nursing situation.
Organization	Aesthetic Component: Presentation is organized in a creative and innovative way. Superior use of proper grammar, spelling, and APA formatting.

 

Mr. Smith got admitted to step down unit, 6 weeks ago. According to his wife, Mr. Smith got food poisoned while on vacation in Colombia .They brought him back to the United States but within a two weeks his condition had deteriorated tremendously. Mr. Smith was experiencing weakness and tingling in his extremities then he became completely paralyzed. He could no longer speak but he could hear and understand everything. He couldn’t move any part of his body so he needed someone to turn him, bathe him etc. He got diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome which was a complete shock to nurses and family members. Mr. Smith was placed on a ventilator because he was having difficulty breathing and also he was placed on a feeding tube. His family members were very wealthy and very demanding and wanted nurses to stay in his room at all time. At the step down unit every nurses have only four patients because it is a critical floor. As a registered nurse, I believe that every patient deserve the same attention and care. We usually turned patients every two hours as per hospital policy however Mr. Smith’s family required that we turned him every 15 minutes.

Everyone on the unit was complaining about Mr. Smith because it was too much work and too demanding. Also, family members were very rude to nurses and were never satisfied with anything. However, on the other hand when I looked at his wife and kids I saw fear, pain and desperation. This family was in a lot of pain, they just wanted comfort and reassurance.  I often heard them saying to each other “we are going to get through this, this is not going to beat us” I could only feel pain and sympathy for them. Mrs. Smith on the other hand, seems like a very nice person even though he could not talk he was always smiling. How would a caring nurse do in this situation?