Discussion: Covid 19 Case Study

Case Study Two Review the following case study and complete the questions that follow (Two components). Submit your completed document via email to your professor once you have completed it by the due date. First component of the case study: As a nurse practicing within a family practice, you are interviewing a 55-year-old woman who is an executive assistant at a local law firm, where she has worked for 9 years. She has a 7-year history of respiratory illness, which occurs several times throughout the year, not seemingly connected to the changes in season. She does not use tobacco products in any form. During your questions regarding her home and work environments, she reports that she enjoys working adjacent to the courthouse in a building over 100 years old because it is such a contrast to her brand-new home on a local golf course. When describing the health of her coworkers, she indicates, “We all share illnesses, which seem to affect everyone else during the year; we just seem to be sicker more often!” a. What information is pertinent to your client’s case? b. How would you assess your client’s risk? c. What would be an exposure pathway for your client? Second component of the case study: The client starts to develop the following symptoms coughing, headache and loss of smell. She goes to a COVID testing site in her community. Discussion: Covid 19 Case Study

She is informed 1 day later that she has tested positive for COVID-19. The client becomes concerned and begins her quarantine at home and informs her employer about her positive testing. The client lives with her mother who is 80 years old and has diabetes. They share a bedroom and neither one of them wear a mask in the house. The daughter does not tell the mother that she has positive for COVID-19. Three days after the client’s quarantine begins the elderly mother starts to demonstrate symptoms like her daughter. The client then tells her mother she tested positive for COVID and has her tested. The elderly mother tests positive and she begins her quarantine with the client. One week after the quarantine the client’s mother begins to experience a high fever, chills, productive cough, and shortness of breath. The mother is taken to the hospital via an ambulance and is admitted with pneumonia and COVID 19 complications. Discussion: Covid 19 Case Study

The client starts to become distressed and she develops a high fever, dry cough, and SOB. The client is taken to the hospital and is admitted for complications from COVID 19 including developing a pulmonary embolism. a. What symptoms did the client begin to develop that demonstrated she had symptoms of COVID 19? b. What mistakes were made in this case scenario by the client related to COVID 19? What could she have done differently to protect her and her mother? c. What put the elderly mother at risk and why did she develop a complication from COVID 19? d. What put the client at risk for acquiring COVID-19 and why did she develop a complication from COVID 19? e. What are some of the resources they will need to assist them once they leave the hospital, including referrals? Assignments: 1. Write a document 1-2 pages in length, in APA format, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, double-spaced with 1” margins, and include at least two citations using references less than five years old. You must address both components (one and two) of the case study. 2. Complete an Epidemiological Triangle for COVID-19 … Discussion: Covid 19 Case Study