Nursing Case Study

On May 3, 2012 my grandpa had a stroke. The first thing that came to my head was, “Will my grandpa die?” I did not want to lose my grandpa. He was someone I looked up to, and I loved to be around him. He was hospitalized for approximately two months. My family and I visited him often. I remembered what my grandpa was like before his incident: a fun-loving guy, always cracking jokes to his grandkids. aHe was different now. At first, he couldn’t respond to the doctors with words, he could only slightly shake his head. When people came to visit him, he couldn’t recognize who they were. He didn’t even know who I was. He couldn’t walk. Later he had feeling in his feet, but still had trouble standing up and still couldn’t walk. He started to speak, but slurred. His reaction was slow. He wasn’t the same grandpa I knew months before. I visited the hospital frequently. As

Receiving basic health care is important, but over 90% of hospitals lack health care workers that cannot simply provide basic care (Rosseter).

The nursing shortage is not only about a low number of workers, but about how the health system lacks qualified nurses to use their skills successfully. There are numerous stories of unqualified nurses providing care for patients that lead to terrible outcomes.

In Denver, a nurse failed a medication competency test and accidentally gave her 78-year-old patient a fatal dose of intravenous drugs.

A nurse was busy caring for twelve other patients, while one of her patients was crying for help was not heard, resulting in bleeding to death after an emergency hysterectomy.

An overworked nurse misinterpreted a fetal monitoring strip of a 30-year-old patient waiting to give birth and failed to notice that her baby was in terrible pain. The patient’s son suffered serious brain damage