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Assessment talk(help needed)

I have been given an assessment task(case study) which is 100% of the subject mark.

I am one month into my course.

I have been given information on the patients observations

Respirations, oximetry(95% in room air), blood glucose level(11mmo1/1)

Neurovascular observations)

I have also been given laboratory results

Haemoglobin, INR(1.5), leukocyte count(18.8 multiplied by 109/1)

thrombocyte count 100 multilpied by 109/1

serum bilirubin(23umo1/L)

urinalysis/catheter specimen(SG 1020)

I am a little overwhelmed and any help as to what this information means and is telling me, the normal readings and abnormal readings, how to assess the information and any additional information would be greatly appreciated!!!

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    You should start by looking up the normal values for all the parameters that you've been given. That will help you formulate a picture of what's happening to your patient and what kinds of interventions might be appropriate.

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    Thankyou:)

    Just wondering what assessment and nursing intervention are.

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    The assessment and nursing interventions are going to be what logically follows from what you find out from the lab values. For example, if the blood glucose is high, why is that? What kinds of things would be some of the possible negative outcomes of high blood glucose that you would want to assess for? What can you do as a nurse to help correct the high blood glucose (intervention)?

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    The assessment and nursing interventions are going to be what logically follows from what you find out from the lab values. For example, if the blood glucose is high, why is that? What kinds of things would be some of the possible negative outcomes of high blood glucose that you would want to assess for? What can you do as a nurse to help correct the high blood glucose (intervention)?

    That's true - asking what (if anything) the patient ate recently prior to the appointment would be one (subjective) part of the assessment that is important. Also, if nothing concrete can be determined, initiating follow ups would also be very important, since (for example) depending on the blood glucose levels, it can take evaluating three blood/sugar tests before a diagnosis of diabetes to be determined.

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