Developing Clinical Reasoning

Question: Complete the following sentences, then analyze the reasons for your answers. When my parents can no longer care for themselves, I will do what? If my parents were living in a long-term care facility, I would want the nurse to do what? When I am old, I want my family to do what? Answer: When my parents can no longer care for themselves, I will do what? When parents are old they cannot work at their maximum efficiency and they are unable to perform their daily routine hence it is advised to give them nursing or midwifery assistance. Proper nursing care is only be achieved by valuing and respecting elders and this way a basic care that would assist them in eating, drinking and they required a proper hygienic environment and these fundamental and essential care is must to be provided (Landefeld et. al., 1995 If my parents were living in a long-term care facility, I would want the nurse to do what? If the parents are old they require special care in a nursing care facility so that a proper help could be given to parents and role of family members is to identify the real and functional help by interdisciplinary consultation. Proper nurses have to support the parents as they are caregiver and they educate and support and they have to perform proper rehabilitative efforts even at the time when health of parents are ameliorating. Nurse should take care of complication that occurs with age and address some safety issue in fall injuries. It is essential for nurses to have knowledge of physical therapy which might be very useful in long term and ensures health safety (Lawton Brody, 1969). . When I am old, I want my family to do what? When I will grow old the main objective of family will be to maintain the daily routine that would help in maintaining cognitive and physical activity through socializing ourselves. Physical activeness in body will allow flexible visitation a well has it also promotes that habit of reading newspapers. Expertise nursed provides proper education and gives strategy to maintain the healthy life style and encountering the situation of functional decline. Refernces Lawton, M. P., Brody, E. M. (1969). Assessment of older people: Self-maintaining and instrumental activities of daily living. Gerontologist, 9, 179186. Landefeld, C. S., Palmer, R. M., Kresevic, D. M., Fortinsky, R. I., Kowa, J. (1995). A randomized trial of care in a hospital medical unit especially designed to improve the functional outcomes of acutely ill older patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 332, 13381344