Nursing Case Interview Paper

A few days later, the baby died. Kimberly Hiatt was extremely affected by this incident. According to her partner, she was absolutely devastated. Kimberly had cared for baby Kaia many times since the baby was born with severe heart problems. Kaia’s family didn’t seek retribution after the baby’s death, however in the days following the accident, they just asked that she not provide direct care for her.

Due to the lack of structure and discipline from her mother, Krystal found herself reacting violently on numerous different occasions. “Krystal slapped Terri across the face. Terri told her to fuck off and die” (103). The relationship between Krystal and her mother damaged Krystal’s ability to control herself and stop from engaging in hurtful acts. Since Terri’s parenting failed to teach Krystal how to properly act, Krystal assumed that how she lived her life and communicated with others was acceptable.

The fact that this medication error happened more than once, only a few hours apart, shows several levels of negligence on the nurses’ part. This story does not state who found or reported the error or what the outcome was for the nurses. It does state that both twins died and the second baby was 11 months old at the time the story was written and was still in the hospital with severe health issues. (Patel,

JENNY COSTE This is the case of Jenny Coste, 10 years old and was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She felt a sudden pain in her legs, was feeling sick and has shortness of breath. She undergoes intensive chemotherapy and have been in and out of the hospital for 18 months. She had a remission for a fleeting period, but unfortunately a relapse occurred. Her health being swiftly dropped despite assertive effort of treatment until her family decided to put her in palliative care.

Life is a continuous story filled with good and bad, and mine is no different. My sister was born premature with spina bifida, that lead to the implantation of a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt for her survival. Since birth she does not have full sensation below her hip; she has been unable to move her left leg and has limited motion of her right leg. She experienced a difficult childhood because she faced numerous medical problems that required many hospital visits. During those hospital visits, my parents did not have anyone to look after me, therefore they took me along with them.

Although women are the people responsible for populating the future generations, their health care is always on the backburner. Some people believe that women should not have the rights to their own body, and in turn have no access to reproductive care, or healthcare in general. Planned Parenthood has been mercilessly attacked by the government because of Congress’ belief on these issues. Right now, under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women have legal and full access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, STI testing, birth control, and abortions in cases of rape, incest, and endangerment to the mother’s life. All of these services are also covered by Planned Parenthood, a center that is designed for women’s health.

The patient was diagnosed for polyps and multiple diverticula at the age of 68. The Patient suffers of painful osteoarthritis of both knees, shoulder hips. Patient?s mother deceased at the age of 79 from breast cancer and her father deceased at the age of 54 from heart attack. The patient noted with bilateral lower extremities edema, and claimed that she uses 2 pillows as a comfortable position to sleep,

Rosaura never wished to be married, and never wanted to be like this. She had to live with someone she didn’t love and had kids with him. She had the resentful eyes from her little sister who she loved dearly. Tita doesn’t realize that Rosaura has doe everything she could to make her happy, but Tita won’t accept what she is trying to do. While dealing with the frustration with her sister, she experience horrendous illnesses that causes her to isolate herself.

She has unresolved issues with her mother that they have never discussion with each other. After her mother’s friends, who are the ya-ya’s, kidnap her she starts learning about her mother’s past. This is when the viewers understand how Siddalee and her mother didn’t have a close relationship and that her mother didn’t really tell her things. Siddalee learns that her mother was engaged to another man, who was her mother’s first true love and he was killed while gone in the military. This explains why her mother never had a great relationship with her father and why her parents were always fighting, which was due to her mother always comparing her father to her first true love.

Like i said,  90% of patau syndrome patients die within 3 days of being born, this is mainly because there whole body has so many defects and flaws from the syndrome that it is very hard to even survive childhood because of the defects. There is a woman named Elaine, she is the longest living patau syndrome patient ever. She was born and diagnosed with patau thought to have 3 days- 2 months to live, she is now 23 years old and is still surviving patau syndrome. The doctors who diagnosed it to her are mesmerized how she has survived this long. Most cases of trisomy 13 are not a result from random events during the crossing of the eggs and sperm in the parents.