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Red Yoder is an 80-year-old farmer who lives alone in the farmhouse. Red cooks for himself rarely and mainly eats packaged or processed foods and also consumes whisky quiet often, Red’s current medical problems include insulin dependent diabetes complicated by an open foot wound. He also has some incontinence and difficulty sleeping. Red is awaiting a visits from the home health nurse to assess the open wound on the big toe after walking in his new shoes. Two weeks after the home health nurse visits, Red misses his Monday morning coffee at the local VFW. The home health nurse wanted to make sure he didn’t get an infection in that toe and now she is back to change the bandaged. Red tells her that he didn’t eat his food and didn’t take his insulin as well which caused his blood glucose to shoot up. He didn’t take the antibiotics prescribed to him. Red requires admission to the hospital for sepsis of the wound. Even after discharge, he insists on living alone without help from his son Jon and Judy who are concerned about him.

After the simulation with Red Yoder,

Discuss the information resources you used to assess this patient. How did this guide your care planning?

Answer 1

Information resources used to assess the patient:

For assessing the patient Mr.Red Yoder with Insulin Dependant Diabetes Mellitus, health professional can have number of resources for her assistance to get the information, such as:

* Internet based information from different Health care organizations or Health care agencies like Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC), American Diabetes Association, Mayo clinic , NCBI ( National Center for Biotechnology information ), World health organisation ( WHO) etc.

* Printed Materials like Text books, journals, aothorized health magazines etc.

* Authorized people like , Diabetologists, pharmacists, nurse specialists, General physicians , collegues etc.

* Information from laboratory test results of patient, previous medical records of patient, physical examination, nutritional history, socio - economic history of the patient etc.

These resources can assist the nurse in planning the care for the patient. It will give information related to the disease condition, its causes, pathology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic evaluations, nursing , nutritional and medical management. The nurse can utilise these information for :

* assessing patient's signs and symptoms , through subjective and objective data

* to identify the patient's health needs / problems to formulate Nursing Diagnosis

* to set realistic short term and long term goals

* to plan the effective nursing interventions

* to evaluate the efectivenesss of implemented care.