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Medical-Surgical Nursing

What Should the Nurse Do?

Medical-Surgical NursingWhat Should the Nurse Do?

What Should the Nurse Do?

You are caring for a 27-year-old male patient who presents to the emergency room after a fall during a soccer game. The patient reports that they cannot move their ankle, which has been becoming progressively more swollen in the last hour since the fall. Upon assessment, you notice that the patient’s foot is turning purple and the patient is losing the ability to wiggle their toes on command.
1 .
What kind of injury do you suspect the patient has?
2 .
What kind of diagnostic test do you anticipate for the patient?
3 .
Based on the assessment findings, are you concerned about anything at this point?
The nurse is caring for a 2-year-old patient who is brought to the clinic by their parents for frequent falls at home. After assessing the patient and running diagnostic tests, the patient is diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
4 .
What other clinical manifestations would you warn the parents that the child may experience over the course of their life?
5 .
What resources would you provide to the parents to assist them with their child’s new diagnosis?
6 .
The parents fear that since the disease cannot be cured, their child will suffer. What can you mention as possible treatments?
The nurse is caring for a 32-year-old female patient recently diagnosed with SLE.
7 .
What treatments would the nurse anticipate being ordered for the patient?
8 .
What considerations and side effects of the treatment options should the nurse discuss with the patient?
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