Case Study Chapter 1 : Community and Public Health Nursing: Present, Past, and F
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Question
Case Study
Chapter 1: Community and Public Health Nursing: Present, Past, and Future
As a public health nurse at a free clinic, you are assessing and interviewing a 21-year-old woman who has come to the clinic because “I don’t have any energy and haven’t felt good in weeks”. During the interview, you learn that she averages one meal per day, smokes up to two packs of cigarettes per day and rummages through trash to find items to sell to purchase food, snacks, and cigarettes. She admits to using street drugs “every once in a while, when I can find someone who will share with me”. She admits, “My life is a mess and I don’t know how to make it better”. (Learning Objective: 5)
What data can you gather based on available client information?
What questions should you ask yourself while interviewing this client?
During planning, how can you best assist the client?
Outline potential strategies to assist her in making her life “better”.
Explanation / Answer
From the given information we can see that the client does not have a proper diet. Even she is addicted to cigarettes. She consumes drugs that is not going any good to her body and she is in depression as well because of her past that is why she's going through depression.
Questions that you ask yourself while interviewing this client should be,
One- Will you be able to give her better advice on her conditions.?
Two- What will you do make her happier in life?
During planning we can assist by asking happier events of life that can make her smile.
We can educate her about the danger of smoking and drugs.
I can giver her knowledge about the better diet that can make her life better.
Potential strategies
1) Better diet
2) No smoking and drugs education
3) Telling her how she can forget and her past and make her future and present better.