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NSG 4055 Week 5 Project – Creating a Plan of Care
NSG 4055 Week 5 Project – Creating a Plan of Care
Utilizing the information you have gathered over the weeks regarding the specific illness group you identified, this week, you will create a plan of care for your chronic illness group.
Create the plan in a 4- to 6-page Microsoft Word document (the 4–6 pages include the holistic care plan). Include the following in your plan:
Start the paper with a brief introduction describing the chronically ill group you selected and provide rationale for selecting this illness and the participants. Clearly identify the Healthy People 2020 topic chosen and why this topic was chosen.
You will want to compile the information gathered from Weeks 1–4 over 2 to 3 pages. This should be in APA format and paragraph form. This is not to be copied and pasted from previous assignments.It is to be a summary of each week.
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The paper should include the care plan for your chronic illness group organized under the following headings:
Nursing Diagnoses
Assessment Data (objective and subjective)
Interview Results
Desired Outcomes
Evaluation Criteria
Actions and Interventions
Evaluation of Patient Outcomes
You will need to ensure that the care plan is holistic and includes at least 3 nursing diagnoses related to the topic and interview results from the previous weeks.
Include strategies for the family or caregiver in the care plan and provide your rationale on how they will work.
Include a reference page to provide reference for all citations for the paper as well as the care plan.
On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.
Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.
This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.
You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.
SAMPLE PAPER INTRODUCTION TO CREATING A CARE PLAN
Illness and Disease Management
The chronic illness that I chose was type 2 diabetes in elderly women. I chose diabetes because as a nurse at the local health center, I have noticed that most patients have diabetes related symptoms. Elderly women above 65 years are more affected by diabetes out of the 29.1 million people living with diabetes in the United States. During the first week, I looked at the morbidity and comorbidity of diabetes. I learnt that diabetes patients’ mortality is 1.8 times higher than that of people without the disease. The elderly; above 65 years, have the highest mortality rate as they are more prone to acquiring other conditions like cardiovascular disease as most of them are overweight.
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The cost of diabetes is also a concern as it affects the overall health of the nation. This is because taking care of diabetes patients costs more to treat and manage compared to other illnesses. It is therefore important to prevent diabetes as it is costly to manage and treat. Successful prevention of diabetes would lead to the funds that are used to treat diabetes being used to take care of patients suffering from other illnesses. Preventing the disease can be done by encouraging more people to go for screening regularly in order to catch the disease early. The healthy people 2020 goals and objectives for diabetes was also looked at with the main goal being reducing the burden of the disease on the patient and improving their quality of life in the process. I also came up with a diabetes questionnaire.
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In the second week, I filled out the questionnaire developed in week one. Responses from the questionnaire revealed that the patient needs a lot of family support to manage the disease. The patient needs support in coping with the change in diet, increased exercise, and someone to remind them to take their medication. The patient responded that she is afraid of the disease and therefore needs reassurance and love from her family. The patient also needs monitoring on the progress of the disease from a healthcare professional like a nurse.
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The third week was an analysis of the steps that need to be taken to ensure that the healthy people 2020 goals and objectives are implemented. Implementation of the objectives majorly requires more education on the general population and also on those living with diabetes. The individuals living with diabetes need to be sensitized on the need to go for the recommended medical check-ups and tests. Some of these are; dental checkup, foot examination,eye examination, among others. The patients should also ensure that they maintain their …