HELP PLEASE!! COPD patients

[nelge16v]

Hi nurses/student nurses!!

I'm just having a little problem with my homework and I would like to get some insights from you guys...any help would be greatly appreciated.

here is the question.

Describe how patient's personal meaning (pain, suffering, anger) of COPD help a nurse collaboratively make decisions regarding the client's health and potential for health and healing?

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

Moved to Nursing Student Assistance Forum, as more appropriate for this type inquiry.

What specifically have YOU found in YOUR research? Please tell us first. We would like to help, but we will not do your homework for you.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

COPD patients are difficult to care for because they are angry a lot. Who wouldn't be?? Is the anger based on fear or guilt or what? GEt to the bottom of that and see if you can come up with a way to CONTROL the situation, thus reducing the anger. Things like teaching how to breathe and when to call MD

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

COPD patients are difficult to care for because they are angry a lot. Who wouldn't be?? Is the anger based on fear or guilt or what? GEt to the bottom of that and see if you can come up with a way to CONTROL the situation, thus reducing the anger. Things like teaching how to breathe and when to call MD

It can also be the steroids they take causing agitation.

[Clovery]

We just covered this today in lecture.... COPD pts are also anxious/irritable/cranky because of a lack of oxygen to their brains.

I really don't get the question, though. It seems like it it could be stated more simply.

A suggestion was made in class - to understand the daily trials of a COPD patient, attach a nasal cannula to a (full) gallon jug of water, wear it, and take that jug with you WHEREVER you go for 24 hours, simulating life tethered to an oxygen tank. I'm not saying that's a nursing intervention, but try to imagine what it's like for them. Think about the regret they feel for not quitting smoking... or the denial.