Discuss the patient care that you have provided has influence your career and the decision to continue your education .

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responses to these questions must be typed and each essay should be between one and two pages .

Question 1: Discuss the patient care that you have provided has influence your career and the decision to continue your education .

Ouestion 2: how do you see yourself contributing to the nursing profession?

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Using the nursing case study, identify the interdisciplinary care providers you need to include to ensure your patient receives the best treatment. Attached is what needs to be included in the paper.

Outline how you will coordinate, engage, and transition your patient to other providers. It needs to be a 860 word paper.

 

You are a staff nurse working in an intensive care unit and assigned to care for a 75-year-old man who had coronary artery bypass graft surgery four days ago. The patient has a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbated by heavy smoking. His postoperative course has been difficult, and he has suffered a number of setbacks. Staff members, despite their diligent efforts, have not been able to wean him off the ventilator since the surgery. He has required frequent suctioning throughout the shift, and he is being evaluated for the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Today, when returning from lunch, you observed that an experienced nurse was suctioning your patient. His secretions were thick, and you observed that the nurse was instilling saline into the patient’s endotracheal tube as she was suctioning him. The patient turned red and began coughing, and it was obvious he was in distress.

You asked the nurse why she was instilling saline into his endotracheal tube. She replied that this was being done to loosen the secretions. You told her this was no longer an acceptable practice. She stated that she many years of critical care experience and she didn’t care what anyone said, that the only way you could loosen the patient’s secretions would be to instill saline. She also said that would be the last time she would do something for one of your patients while you were at lunch.