Essay Mrs Taylor Case Study – Three Potential Strategies – Nursing Assignment Help

Assignment Task :

Topic 2 

As a graduate Registered Nurse in a mental Health setting, Victoria was always keen to understand the patient’s perspective. She was very interested in the plight of Mrs Mary Brown Taylor, & worked hard to develop a trusting relationship with her. This elderly lady was admitted with acute depression, mild malnutrition and dehydration, sleep deprivation and a general loss of affect that impacted on her ability to self care. Mrs Taylor lived in her own home that was now surrounded with high rise apartments and town houses. A general fear for her own safety left Mrs Taylor a prisoner in her own home, where she was often too frightened to venture out to buy food or to pay her bills. Mrs Taylor said that ‘she had no family to speak of’ & her husband, siblings and friends had all died or were in nursing homes too far away to visit. 

Since the admission, & Mrs Taylor’s appetite and uninterrupted sleep, resulted in a distinct improvement in her affect & ability to self care. Mrs Taylor expressed a desire to go home. At 

the ward meeting, however the health care team were concerned about her returning to the environment that primarily led to her admission in the first place. As Victoria had developed such a strong rapport, she was asked to develop a discharge plan with Mrs Taylor that would address her ability to self care & to consider ways to address her psychological and social needs. 

– Using quality evidence, discuss the importance of the nurse patient therapeutic relationship in a mental health setting when discharge planning. (include: trust) 

– By leading a scenario based critical discussion develop strategies that Victoria, as a transitioning graduate registered nurse, could use to ensure that Mrs Taylors’ learning needs are accurately assessed and met so as she can confidently return to her home. (Include as part of your discussion consideration of: learning needs assessment & developmental stage considerations). 

Your assignment is to be developed as a presentation (with audio) and an associated essay for submission. 

Suggested steps to complete the assessment: 

1. Review the evidence base on your chosen question by conducting a search of the library databases or other credible sources for relevant, contemporary evidence to help answer your chosen question. 

2. Critically evaluate the literature you find by providing a synthesis of the key evidence. Remember a critical evaluation is more than merely describing the literature. This requires you to evaluate what is good and bad about the body of literature you found relating to your chosen question. 

3. From your critical evaluation identify at least three potential strategies to address the issue. 

4. Summarise the significance of the strategies and provide a rationale for your decisions.