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Nursing 316L Case Study  Patient with Pulmonary Embolism  Provide a detailed of Pulmonary Embolism template

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Nursing 316L Case Study

 Patient with Pulmonary Embolism

 Provide a detailed of Pulmonary Embolism template.

Make a medication template on Lovenox, Percocet, and Metamucil.

 

Case Study

M.W. is a 30-year-old interior decorator who suffered a stable fracture of the pelvis in an automobile accident four days ago. She is 18 weeks pregnant and has multiple areas of soft tissue trauma to her legs as evidenced by large hematomas over the entire left leg and right thigh. She has treated with immobilization with bed rest. She is receiving 40 mg enoxaparin (Lovenox) subcutaneously daily, two tablets oxycodone/acetaminophen (Percocet) PO q4hr PRN, and two tsp of psyllium (Metamucil) twice a day.

 

1)M.W call the nurse before lunch and complain SOB, dooming feeling and seems very anxious.

List the assessment that should be Performed by the nurse?

 

 

2 What is the nurse suspecting and how much time she should spend investigating about M.W's complain?

 

 

3 What was the priority problem? 

 

 

4 What are the possible causes for the problem?

 

 

5 What are the consideration about pregnancy at this time?

 

 

6 What are important priority non-pharmacologic interventions?

 

 

7 What complication of pregnancy can arrive from this incident and what should the specific assessment?

 

 

8 What assessments required before medication administration?

 

 

9 How is this drug/treatment administered? 

 

                              

10 What are possible side effects/complications and what monitoring needs to conducted?

 

 

11 What could have delegated to the CNA?

 

 

12 What resources were or could have used?

 

 

13 What environmental safety risks existed?

 

14 Identify the team that nurse needs to collaborate to treat this patient?