2.What would be a successful outcome for this
patient?3.What intellectual, technical, interpersonal,
and/or ethical/legal competencies are most
likely to bring about the desired outcome?4.What resources might be helpful for
Mr. Pirolla?PATIENT CARE STUDY
Read the following patient care study and use
your nursing process skills to answer the
questions below.
Scenario:George Gibson, an 81-year-old,
married, African American man, reluctantly
reports, after much prodding from his wife,
that he is not hearing as well as he used to be.
“I don’t know what the trouble is,” he tells
you. “I’m in perfect health, always have been.
More and more, people just seem to be mum-
bling instead of talking.” You notice he is
seated on the edge of his chair and bends
toward you when you speak to him. His wife
reports that he has stopped going out andpretty much stays in his room whenever peo-
ple come to visit because he is embarrassed by
his inability to hear. “This is really a shame,
because George was always the life of the
party,” she says. You ask Mr. Gibson if he
has ever had his hearing evaluated, and he
tells you no, until now, he’s been trying to
convince himself that nothing’s wrong with
his hearing.
1.Identify pertinent patient data by placing a
single underline beneath the objective data in
the patient care study and a double underline
beneath the subjective data.
2.Complete the Nursing Process Worksheet on
page 311 to develop a three-part diagnostic
statement and related plan of care for this
patient.
3.Write down the patient and personal nursing
strengths you hope to draw upon as you assist
this patient to better health.
Patient strengths:Personal strengths:4.Pretend that you are performing a nursing
assessment of this patient after the plan of
care is implemented. Document your findings.310 UNIT VIII PROMOTING HEALTHY PSYCHOSOCIAL RESPONSES
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