Case Study of  The Week

The Last Week of February

Imagine providing home care for Mrs. William Graves , a 61-year-old grandmother who was recently discharged from the hospital after having suffered a stroke. Mrs. Graves has a long history of hypertension and you are to assess her blood pressure and understanding of her medications. When you arrive, you find that she lives with her 22-year-old daughter and three grandchildren who are of age 4 years, 3 years, and 1 year. During your visit, you observe that the older children are scantily dressed in dirty clothing, feeding cheese curls to the baby. The 3-year-old has multiple contusions on her arms and legs while the 4-year-old has a fairly large loop-mark welt on his anterior thigh. The baby, in a soiled diaper, is clearly undernourished. The mother is at school while her live-in boyfriend and father of the 1-year-old is asleep upstairs. 

Imagine This…
Taken from Lippincott's Nursing Centre