Question

Mr. james, the 56-year-old man admitted with a stroke, has many abnormal findings.

He has a history of hypertension, smoking, and mild baseline dementia. He appears fearful and agitated, asking for cigarettes, oriented to name only. His speech is comprehensible but slurred.

Mr Ali is drowsy with periods of confusion. He has impaired short-term memory—remembers zero of three objects after 1 minute. He appears to have left visual field loss. He has right lower facial weakness left tongue deviation. His muscle bulk is symmetrical, tone slightly increased on left arm/leg. He has diminished attention to objects and people on the right side of bed.

A- What nursing assessment findings support the diagnosis of stroke? (

B- What problems related to Mr Ali’s safety should the nurse consider?

C- What nursing care plan should the nurse formulate for the patient?   

Answer 1

A. Nursing assessment is the procedure for identification of the undetlying health condition. In the given case some of the assessment findings indicates ghe diagnosis of stroke and these are-

Confusion and loss of adaptive memory, inability of patient to remember things and orientation to place, date and time, vidual field loss, facial assymetry mucle tone loss, slurred speech, and impaired cognition.

Hence above mentiones are the findings from the assessment thay indicates stroke.

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