OET- Role play Card - (NURSING) -02- Patient in Ventilator
Role play Card - Nursing -02
Setting: Hospital
Nurse: Your patient is a 75-year-old woman who has been admitted with pneumonia. Her lungs have become inflamed and filled with fluid or pus. She is being supported by a ventilator to assist with breathing. Her son/daughter is concerned about the need for a ventilator.
Task
* Find the reason for the request to see you.
* Give information about his/her mother's condition (inflamed lungs, filled with fluid/pus, ventilator for breathing, etc.)
* Confirm the reason for using a ventilator (deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide, lungs unable to function etc.) Explain its benefits for the patient (currently stable, pneumonia severe for her age, close monitoring , etc)
* Resist time scale for ventilator support (defer patient to patient. adjust ventilator as per progress, removal when safe). Find out any other concerns or questions.
* Reassure about clinical decision (the most effective waay, antibiotics for infection, other supportive measures, etc) Explain to inform treatment stages.
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