Home Visit With Sallie Mae Fisher and Sallie Mae Fisher's Health History

Nursing Interventions
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Nursing intervention is an action-treatment plan carried out by a nurse and aimed at diagnosing on behalf of the patient to find out possible changes to their conditions. Nurses can work together with the patients or independently. This article outlines four types of interventions and the rationale when two nurses visited a patient, Sallie at her home (Grand Canyon University, n.d.).
Intervention techniques are classified under domains which include psychosocial care, indirect care management, safety among others (The University of Iowa, n. d). There are safety measures like leaving the door opened while she is present. The nurses also try hard to solve her psychosocial problem when she tells of her late husband. They give her emotional support by empathizing with her as she narrates the type of man he was. It will help in reducing the anxiety in her and
The third and fourth intervention involves indirect care management and checkups of her health changes like temperature, weight and pressure to compare with the previous status. At the same time, they inquire her medication like the use of supplied oxygen which they do not find in her room. These were aimed at improving the related health complications of the old patient (Cordova, et al. 2010) which ...