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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We, the students of UNCIANO MEDICAL COLLEGES, Antipolo city, BSN 4th yr
student, NCM 104, section C group C3 would like to give our deepest thanks to
following people of institutions. The completion of this case study was made possible
through the remarkable contribution of the people to whom we give our warmth
gratitude. To Binangonan Medical Hospital, general ward for sincerely welcoming us and
for giving us the Opportunity to gather the necessary information regarding our chosen
patent. To the doctors and staff nurses of Binangonan Medical Hospital, in general ward
who treats us and gave us the feeling of becoming part of the health care team. To our
Clinical Instructress, Ms. Etheldreda Santos RN MAN for guiding us and for opening our
minds to a deeper knowledge of understanding. To each member of our group who gave
their time and support in order for our case to be done. To our beloved family who is
always there to support us. And lastly, we heartedly thank our Almighty God who gave
us the knowledge in giving care to our clients. He continuous to guide us to the journey
of our success.
II. INTRODUCTION
We chose this study precisely because it would give us relevant experience such
as enhancing our skills and our attitudes in dealing with the patient’s family and the
ability to understand thoroughly about his underlying condition. Furthermore, as students
we should be familiar with the hospital setting and ability to make informed critically
analyzed judgments to the practices.
General Objectives:
This study aims to convey familiarity and to provide an effective nursing care to a
patient diagnosed with Acute Gastroenteritis through understanding the patient history,
disease process and management.
Specific Objectives:
To be able to:
-Apply and improve our assessment skills using the 13 areas of assessments
-Review medications prescribed to our client and know the nursing considerations when
administering them.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the Nursing Care Plan’s and impart appropriate health
teachings on promoting client’s health recovery.
VI. PATIENT’S PROFILE
Sex : female
Nationality : Filipino
Prior to admission, the client was defecating. Her stool was watery and its color
is green. According to the patient after her son look that he is experience diarrhea, he
decided to bring her mother in the Hospital. In the emergency room she admitted their
with a chief complaint of soft stool, seen and examined by Dr. Dela Cruz. She sign the
consent for admission. She was inserted D5LR 1L X 10 hour regulated @ depend rate
aseptically. The doctor orders a medicines for her (metronidazole 500mg) and
( ampicillin 500mg TIV).
The client had fever, cough and colds. The patient had never been any disease
such as measles, mumps and chicken pox. The patient had no history of accident or any
injury. She does not have allergy in any food or drug. She was not hospitalized before
and she does not take any medication or supplements to maintain her health.
Hereditary Illness:
There is no history of any diseases in the family of Mrs. M.R. However, in the paternal
line, a history of Hypertension is present. His father and her mother did not acquire any
from the two diseases nor have any disease.
Socio-Economic:
According to the patient she is the one who shouldered the bill in the hospital. She has
keep a money when she is working. She is a vendor and her income is 100 a day.
13 AREAS OF ASSESSMENT
I.SOCIAL STATUS
The patient is 80 years old. He was baptized as a Roman Catholic but he is not an active
participant to any religious or social organization. She is works as a vendor in
Binangonan Market. She is a widow and she lives her own home. She has born on August
25, 1930.
II.MENTAL STATUS
We asked our patient if she is aware where he is, he replied to us that she is in
Hospital. We asked her if she is still working, she replied “Yes”. We asked what her full
name is, she answered correctly. She speaks and answers our questions but when she
answers our questions, she uses ‘Tagalog’ dialect fluently but she told us that she cant
knows how to speak in English. Also during the interview, she doesn’t maintain eye
contact and seems to be shy. When we assessed her memory, we asked her whether she
remembers what she ate for lunch; she thought for it for a while and answered, “Kanin”.
III.EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Our client was calm but she is a shy, when we are talking to her there is a time that we
need to repeat our question twice before she answer this. He felt sad because of her
condition, because she wants to work in the market.
IV.SENSORY PERCEPTION
a. VISION
The eyes were bilaterally assessed, there were no discharges seen. Upon
illumination of the penlight, starting from the outer canthus going to the inner canthus,
her pupil constricts. When illuminated, the pupil constricts as a direct response and the
client’s pupil dilates when non-illuminated, as a consensual response.
Upon the assessment of the visual acuity, we gave the client a flashcards, the
English alphabets, to be read, the client was able to read the words and letters at the
distance of 36 cm (14in) and font size of 48 with pictures of each words. Her pupils are
color black.
Upon the assessment of the alignment and the coordination of the eye,
we asked the client to look at the penlight moving in an upright, downward and
sideward movement. Both eyes are coordinated and aligned. Although she is an 80 years
old woman, she told that she can see clearly and she never used eyeglass.
b. AUDITORY
We inspect the clients both auricles, the color is light brown the same as
the facial skin. It is symmetrical and auricle is aligned with outer cantus of the eye. The
auricles were palpated: the texture is smooth, areas were firm and there was no
tenderness seen; both the left and right auricle recoils after it was folded. There was no
discharge seen in both ear of the client.
We explained then performed the Weber’s test and Rinse’s test to the client.
With the used of tuning fork, Weber’s test was perform for
lateralization. The client was instructed to cover his left ear, the
examiner tap the tuning fork and place it above the clients head and
then the clients was ask if he hears the sound, the test was perform
bilaterally. The sound was accurately heard by the client at the
distance of 3inches and at 5second. After the Weber’s test, we perform
the Rinne’s test to compare air conduction to bone conduction, the
examiner taps the tuning fork and places it at the back of the left ear,
and the procedure was done bilaterally. The client was not really able
to distinguished air conducted hearing.
c. OLFACTORY
d. GUSTATORY
The tongue was in pinkish in color without lesions. She is also blind folded, we let him
taste and identify the different samples namely: sugar, a pinch of salt, vinegar and coffee
granules. We put sugar on the tip of her tongue using the tongue depressor and she was
able to determine the sweet taste, then we let her sip water between tests to lean the
residue on her tongue. We gave her a pinch of salt and put it in the middle of her tongue
and she was able to determine the salty taste. We also gave her vinegar by squeezing the
juice to the side of his tongue and let her taste it and she was able to determine the sour
taste. Lastly we gave her a coffee and she also distinguished this correctly.
e. TACTILE
Upon assessment of the sharp and dull sensations, we let the patient touch the bandage
scissor with a blunt and pointed ends. The client was able to distinguish sharp and dull
sensations.
Upon assessment of the hard and soft sensations, we let the client hold a
cotton ball and then a tuning fork. The client was able to distinguish hard and soft
sensations.
The body temperature was 36.3°C, afebrile, taken via right axilla for 3minutes at around
4PM.
V.MOTOR ABILITY
Our client can ambulate even without any assistance. She can stand and walk but not in
properly. She can’t properly perform flexion; our client can also perform extension. And
also during our assessment, for abduction we asked our client to move each arm laterally
at the sides to a side position above her head and she was able to perform it but she is
slow to do it. We can’t assess the other way of assessment in motor ability because we
see that she feel weakness.
VI.NUTRITIONAL STATUS
Lips are cracked and dry without presence of bleeding lesions. Mucosa and gums are pale
in color and tongue is at midline and intact speech. Cavities are not present on molars and
premolars on both upper and lower gums. She has no teeth.
VII.ELIMINATION STATUS
We asked our client about her normal defecation pattern and she said once a day but
because of her present illness her stool is soft and she feels pain when she is defecating.
We also asked her if she defecated during our shift and he said not yet. The characteristic
of stool according to her was yellow unlike a past few days that the color of her stool is
yello green. According to her the shape is oblong and has unpleasant smell according to
her. In voiding the client voids more than five times a day with the total of 230cc , the
color is yellow, the odor is aromatic he uses the comfort room whenever he feels the
urge of voiding and defecating.
VIII.REPRODUCTIVE SYSRTEM
The reproductive organ was not visually assessed because the client doesn’t want us to
see his reproductive organ. We asked the patient when her first menstruation is and she
can’t remember but she told that her menopausal is on her ages of 50. We did not ask
more question about her genital.
IX.RESPIRATORY STATUS
Our client obtained a respiratory rate of 22 cycles per minute. We asked our client
to inhale deeply and exhale slowly listening to her breath sound using stethoscope in the
back portion of the body. Her breath sound is normal in rhythm and there is no
adventitious breath sounds were heard.
X.CIRCULATORY
We took her pulse in her left radial pulse, which was easily palpable with a
regular rhythm and the rate was 88 beats per minute. Before starting the assessment, her
blood pressure was 110/80 mmHg, which was taken on the left brachial artery while he
was sitting on the bed side. The difference between systolic value and diastolic value
resulted to pulse pressure of 30 mmHg. We also test his capillary refill time which results
to 2 seconds which is within normal range of 1-2 seconds.
According to the client she sleeps 8 hours at day time and 9PM to
5AM at night time. According to the client she doesn’t feel any pain during the
assessment. She did not sleep in daytime because she is stay in market in this time.
Our client’s hair was short, curly and black in color it was free from lice and nits. She
also has a fair skin color but it is like the skin of other older man it is not smooth. Her
nails are cut short and clean in both hands and feet. She has a negative sign of digital
clubbing and in the skin turgor we test it in about 1 second. She did not experiencing
edema.
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
Most of the digestive organs (like the stomach and intestines) are tube-like and contain
the food as it makes its way through the body. The digestive system is essentially a long,
twisting tube that runs from the mouth to the anus, plus a few other organs (like the liver
and pancreas) that produce or store digestive chemicals.
In the stomach - The stomach is a large, sack-like organ that churns the food and bathes it
in a very strong acid (gastric acid). Food in the stomach that is partly digested and mixed
with stomach acids is called chyme.
In the small intestine - After being in the stomach, food enters the duodenum, the first
part of the small intestine. It then enters the jejunum and then the ileum (the final part of
the small intestine). In the small intestine, bile (produced in the liver and stored in the gall
bladder), pancreatic enzymes, and other digestive enzymes produced by the inner wall of
the small intestine help in the breakdown of food.
In the large intestine - After passing through the small intestine, food passes into the large
intestine. In the large intestine, some of the water and electrolytes (chemicals like
sodium) are removed from the food. Many microbes (bacteria
like Bacteroides, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella) in the large
intestine help in the digestion process. The first part of the large intestine is called the
cecum (the appendix is connected to the cecum). Food then travels upward in the
ascending colon. The food travels across the abdomen in the transverse colon, goes back
down the other side of the body in the descending colon, and then through the sigmoid
colon.
The end of the process - Solid waste is then stored in the rectum until it is excreted via
the anus.
TEXTUAL
XIV. Evaluation
After 32 hours of exposure in Queen Mary Hospital, ward, we, the 3rd year
students of Bachelor of Science in Nursing, section E, group 2 of Unciano Colleges -
Antipolo, City acquired proper attitude in communicating with the patients and the staffs
in the hospital, we gained much knowledge and competencies in our clinical area, and we
applied our classroom acquired skills in actual hospital setting.
We established rapport with the client and its significant others. We learn more about
the anatomy and physiology of the patient’s digestive system and we were able to gain more
knowledge about the medications given to our patient. We were able to enhance our assessment
skills using the 13 Areas of Assessment. We were able to formulate an effective nursing care plan
about the patient’s condition.
• We were able to establish rapport with our client as well as his family and helped them
recognize and gave importance on their health and personal development.
• We were able to identify and analyze present health problems of our client that might
place him at risk and we were able to use our nursing skills to help him.
• We were able to review our knowledge about anatomy and physiology of the Digestive
system as well as the pathophysiology of Typhoid Fever.
• We were able to formulate and plan appropriate nursing interventions that lessen the
health problems of our client, by involving him as well as the members of our group.
• We were able to impart necessary knowledge regarding health maintenance to our client
that guided him to achieve a healthy life.
• We were able to evaluate the effectiveness of our nursing care plan.
PROGNOSIS
The infant shows good prognosis towards full recovery and resumption of
activities of daily living, as manifested by being able to eat and sleep better, as well as in
resuming his play and his attempt to walk around. Our client's family, especially the
mother, was open-minded and accepted our health teachings and nursing interventions.
Hygiene
Outpatient
Diet
1. Food must be simple and easy to digest, avoid all kinds of spices on food.
2. Food should be cooked well, but not overcooked as that would make it difficult
to digest.
If diarrheas develop in typhoid increase fluid intake such as soups, curries, gravies and
fruit juice. Vitamin B and C foods must be consumed in order to compensate for the
3. hose vitamins.
4. Eggs and milks are suitable proteins that can be consumed during typhoid fever.
5. Vegetables oils and milk products such as butter, cheese, cream and emulsified
fats can be consumed. Wheat, rice, potatoes and other foods that are high in
carbohydrates are advised:
HEALTH TEACHING:
1. Wash your hands. Frequent hand washing is the best way to control infection.
Wash your hands thoroughly with hot, soapy water, especially before eating or preparing
food and after using the toilet. Carry an alcohol-based hand rub for times when water isn't
available.
3. Avoid raw fruits and vegetables. Because raw produce may have been washed in
unsafe water, avoid fruits and vegetables that you can't peel, especially lettuce. To be
absolutely safe, you may want to avoid raw foods entirely.
4. Choose hot foods. Avoid food that's stored or served at room temperature.
Steaming hot foods are best. And although there's no guarantee that meals served at the
finest restaurants are safe, it's best to avoid food from street vendors — it's more likely to
be contaminated.
5. Get Vaccinated- Typhoid fever vaccine. one is injected in a single dose, and the
other is administered orally over a period of days. Neither is 100 percent effective, and
both require repeat vaccinations.
6. Appropriate systems for human waste disposal must be available. S.typhi can
only be shed through human feces. It is therefore of utmost importance that human
7. Waste be disposed in a most appropriate manner to avoid spread of bacteria.
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