Assessment : Case Study – Maternity

NRSG370 Assessment : Case Study – Maternity

Jennie Pickett, 38, gestational hypertension Jennie Pickett is a 38-year- old woman G1P0 who is in her first pregnancy and is attending clinic for her third antenatal care appointment at 26 weeks gestation.

First Antenatal Visit:

 12 weeks gestation
 Height 178 cm
 Weight 64kg
 Blood pressure 120/80 mmHg
 Uterine size was felt just above the symphysis pubis
 Fetal heart rate 120bpm
 Urinalysis was normal
 No other anomalies detected

Third Antenatal Visit:

 26 weeks gestation
 Weight is 66kgs
 BP 140/92mmHg
 Urinalysis = no proteinuria or glycosuria
 Uterus can be felt at the level of her umbilicus
 Fetal heart rate was 140bpm
 Mild swelling of the hands and feet

To date this pregnancy has been uneventful. A Registered Midwife performed the midwifery skills of abdominal palpation for uterine size and fetal heart auscultation.

Students will complete a case study which discusses the provision of ethical, legal, evidence-based, holistic person-centred care including the establishment of realistic and relevant goals through the theoretical examination of a particular nursing specialty case study using the Clinical Reasoning Cycle (Levett-Jones, 2013).

For presentation instructions consult the ACU Study Guide: Skills for Success (2016).

• Considering the person’s situation, collect, process and present related health information;
• Identify and prioritise at least three (3) nursing problems/issues based on the health assessment data that you have identified for the person at the centre of care;
• Establish goals for priority of nursing care as related to the nursing problem/issues identified;
• Discuss the nursing care of the person, link it to assessment data and history;
• Evaluate your nursing care strategies to justify the nursing care provided;
• Reflect on the person’s outcomes.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.