Nursing Assessment, Care Plan, Medication Management, Patient Education, And ISBAR Handover For Chronic Heart Failure Patient

Patient assessment

In this case study, David had a medical history of Myocardial infarction and came to the cardio logical department to assess his increased health complications. Case study mentions the client, David Parker to be diagnosed with a risk of developing chronic heart failure. It further states that the client in the case study has been recently treated with the complications of cardiac arrest and had been asked to participate in the rehabilitation program. The client on account of the busy schedule at the farm, and the major distance to reach the town had avoided the rehabilitation program. On consulting a cardiologist, the cardiologist states that David is at an increased risk of developing chronic heart disease and that he needs immediate cardiac care. Therefore assessments which are relevant for David are congestive heart related risk assessment, observation of vital signs and dietary assessment.

Chronic heart failure: while attending a regular cardiac follow up routine The Cardiologist diagnosed David with Chronic heart failure and admitted him to the healthcare facility. It was important so that his cardiac failure related symptoms and interventions can be managed. Further it was observed that he has gained 6 kg of weight despite of the fact that he has lost his appetite and is unable to consume food properly. Hence, his cardiac failure related symptoms were important to assess as he increased his water and salt retention capacity.

Vital sign assessment: Vital sign observation is an important aspect for David, which includes temperature, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation and pulse rate. In case of David, his heart rate, and respiratory rate showed elevated levels and due to this his chronic heart related condition was identified. His oxygen saturation and blood pressure was also not normal as both showed steep decrease due to which, the helathcare professionals were able to identify the congestive heart related condition.

Dietary assessment: dietary assessment is an important step that should be assessed in case of David as due to decreased cardiac output and compensatory mechanisms, his water and salt retention has been increased. He is unable to have food due to decreased appetite however, due to water and salt retention, his weight has been increased by 6 kilograms. Therefore, it is important to control his dietary input and track both input and output of calories so that a track of his weight related disparity can be recorded. Further, he has mentioned of being fatigue and nauseous. Therefore in case of congestive heart failure, it is important to reduce the sodium intake and besides this exercise and stress management should be implied on David.

Care planning

Nursing Care Plan:   David

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A reminder that all rationales must be referenced

Nursing problem: Imbalanced fluid volume
Underlying cause or reason: Decreased cardiac output and compensatory mechanisms causing salt and water retention. Use of diuretics may reduce circulating blood volume causing hypovolemia despite peripheral oedema.
Goal of care	Nursing interventions/actions	Rationale	Indicators your plan is working
Decrease fluid volume and maintain fluid balance throughout the shift.	· For this purpose, the medicine Frusemide will be given to the patient. · Further, the patient will be weighted daily  · A close observation of input and output of the liquid will be monitored. · Besides this the 1000ml per day fluid restriction will be continued · the patient will be provided with balanced food so that the weight gain can be managed and controlled	· The medicine Frusemide is a loop diuretic medicine that helps to prevent body from absorbing salts and helps the salts to be excreted outside the body with urine (Taylor, Fonte & Min, 2013). · This will help in maintaining a log of patient weight · This will help in monitoring patient’s input and output of calories (Hur et al., 2013) · this will prevent the patient from consuming excess water or fluid which can increase his salt intake · This helps in preventing water retention, which can be life-threatening condition for people with congestive heart failure (Hur et al., 2013).	The patient will be weighted daily so that the change in mass can be identified and the effectiveness of the intervention can be identified. Besides this, the input and output of liquid will be monitored and calculated in every shift so that the interventions can be strictly managed (Hur et al., 2013).
Nursing problem: Impaired gas exchange
Underlying cause or reason: impaired gas exchange can be a reason for congestive heart failure as alveolar and capillary as well as lung functions contribute heart failure related condition and can also lead to respiratory co-morbidities
Goal of care	Nursing interventions/actions	Rationale	Indicators your plan is working
To create a balance between gaseous exchange through alveoli and capillary	· Patient will be observed for respiratory rate, depth, and effort while breathing and in this situation; · Abdominal breathing, increased respiratory rate and oxygen saturation level will be assessed. · Further the medication with Digoxin will continue.   · oxygen will be provided to the patient so that ample amount of oxygen could reach to his lungs ·  His smoking and alcohol related habits will be prevented as it also affects the lung capacity of the patient	· This is an important intervention, as it will help to observe the patients oxygen saturation level · Vestbo et al. (2013) mentions that during impaired gas exchange a sharp decrease in blood pressure and oxygen level as well as an increase in respiratory rate is witnessed. · These observations will be helpful in maintaining a balanced gas exchange. · Further, the medicine Digoxin will help in maintaining the heart rate and pump ample amount of oxygen so that gaseous exchange can be controlled (Kemp & Conte, 2012). · controlling his smoking condition will help to increase his lung health and lung capacity (Hur et al., 2013)	Evaluation of oxygen saturation level will done after every 6 hours so that the level of oxygen can be observed. Further with this assessment,. The respiratory rate, heart rate will also be evaluated to that the effectiveness of the intervention could be understood (Connolly et al., 2012).
Nursing problem: Activity intolerance
Underlying cause or reason: It can be caused by the compromised oxygen transport (due to impaired gas exchange), increased respiratory rate and abnormal changes in the blood pressure
Goal of care	Nursing interventions/actions	Rationale	Indicators your plan is working
To make the able to perform the daily activity by increasing his activity tolerance level.	· The patient will be involved in specific activities so that active range of motion can be achieved and · will be refrain for several non-essential activities · daily exercise will be included in his routine · he will be provided with educational sessions so that he can understand the actions which can increase his activity tolerance · on the other hand, while each activity, his energy consumption will be assessed using his cardiac output so that his physical strain can be assessed.	· Involving patient in the goal setting and asking for coordinated effort will affect the patient situation positively (Billinger et al., 2014). · Further, conserving energy will help in increasing the patient’s ability to gain tolerance for activities for daily life (Billinger et al., 2014). · providing educational classes to the patient will increase his knowledge about such activities and he will be able to contribute in his helathcare interventions (Kemp & Conte, 2012)	The patient will be observed for all the activities and after that after every 2 days, the progress of the patient in achieving short-term goals will be monitored (Anderson et al., 2013).

In case of David Parker, three medications were used such as Frusemide orally 40mg twice daily, Digoxin orally 62.5 mcg daily and Ramipril orally 5mg twice daily.

The medicine Frusemide was used in case of David as it helps in the management of high fluid

Retention related condition. Due to increased cardiac output and different compensatory mechanism, it was observed that David increased the salt and water retention and due to which, his body fluid level was increased. Therefore, Frusemide medicine was provided 40 mg twice daily so that the water and salt retention can be reduced and excess salt and water can be excreted outside the body through urine (Andreucci, Solomon & Tasanarong, 2013).

The second medication Digoxin was provided to the patient to treat imbalanced cardiac conditions, and congestive heart failure so that his elevated heart rate increased respiratory rate could be controlled. Therefore providing the patient with Digoxin 62.5 mcg daily will help the patient to control his heart rate (Garg et al., 2012). On the other hand, Ramipril was provided orally 5mg twice daily to David so that his elevated blood pressure and congestive heart failure related condition could be controlled. This medicine helps in the arterial muscle relaxation and helps the blood to flow thoroughly through the cavity. Hence, the specific nursing responsibility will be providing the patient with all the medicine on time so that effective result could be achieved.  Besides this, monitoring of positive and negative effects of each medication will also be evaluated. Assessment of Ramprill will involve dryness, cough, cold and nausea whereas for Frusemide will be stomach cramping, constipation and body ache. Hence, these signs will be assessed using frequent observation and close monitoring if the patient (Wharton et al., 2012).

Excess fluid volume related patient education

Patient education is an important aspect of nursing intervention due to which involvement of the patient in nursing intervention and focused contribution of the patient within the care process is achieved. In case of David, he was not aware of his healthcare concern in which his ignorance and lack of health education were primary factors. It was observed that after being discharged from the healthcare facility he did not attended the rehabilitation program and hence, were not aware of the activities that could affect his health. Therefore, a nursing education will be provided to David on excess fluid volume, its causes, and preventive actions (Shepherd, Lomer & Gibson, 2013). These educational sessions will be arranged every week and David will be provided with interesting handouts and presentations so that he could easily understand the causes and consequences of congestive heart failure (Verbalis et al., 2013).

Medication management

To ensure that David is attentive to the session and uses all the preventive measures, which he is able to in the healthcare activity, in his daily life, daily, weekly assessment will be carried out so that his understanding and loopholes can be assessed. The assessment can be a questionnaire filling or oral session with the educator nurse (Leung et al., 2012).

ISBAR handover tool is used as a clinical handover tool so that at the time of handover, a minimum information can be provided to the nurse appointed as care in charge. It comprises Introduction, Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation.

Introduction: the name of the patient is David Parker who was admitted to the healthcare facility after visiting the cardiologist. He has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure.

Situation: In cardiac investigation besides his congestive heart failure, he reported breathlessness, developing cough and increasing fatigue, which is indicating towards decreased activity tolerance.

Background: the patient was admitted to the healthcare facility prior to this scenario; due to myocardial infarction however, he was recovered from the situation and was asked to take part in an outpatient rehabilitation program, which he did not attended due to work related pressure.

Assessment: due to his congestive heart failure, his impaired gas exchange could become sever and due to his cardiac output and other physiological factor associated with such situation, his fluid balance could be hampered leading to increased or decreased fluid balance.

Recommendations: He has been recommended with Frusemide orally 40mg twice daily, Digoxin orally 62.5 mcg daily, Ramipril orally 5mg twice daily so that his elevated blood pressure, elevated respiratory rate, impaired gas exchange and fluid balance can be controlled as well as his activity tolerance can be increased.

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