Many difficult life situations occur day by day. Some people become lose their loved ones, some become bankrupt, but all of them are embraced by one similar factor: they can start building their new life. Eventually, those who succeed become happy, and those who failed — fall into depression and completely ruin their lives. However, the main essence of nursing is to give people a detailed self-portrait and fix their life position in the past, at present, and build a plan for future recovery.
To begin with, when a doctor starts interacting with a client, it is important to create a client’s physical and mental profile. Following this, patients will see their macro world picture. Eventually, this will help to make the right diagnosis and prescription. In the beginning, I disclosed these details to make the woman’s physical portrait. “She averages one meal per day”: The woman has a great risk of problems with gastritis due to the lack of vitamins and other factors that give us energy for the day. “She smokes up to 2 packages of cigarettes daily”: an increased potential of heart attack, low blood pressure, and decreased motivation during the day (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2015). “She rummages through the trash”: a great number of germs begin living right on her palms and arms and, therefore, takes to the organism through the mouth when touching it by hands. “She takes drugs”: she has unstable brain activity periods and decreased level of appetite. Consequently, during the interview, I made a list to question myself.
Firstly, what is the reason for eating only once a day unless the client is not homeless and affords herself to buy 40 cigarettes a day? Secondly, what is the life-purposes of this person because it is hard to pass the whole day by rummaging in the trash in pursuit of food instead of finding a job? Thirdly, what is the reason for lack of energy and a bad temper for weeks? To answer these questions, let us make a psychological portrait of the client. The woman is 21 years old, so that she is not studying at the university. She is single and does not possess a close person who will take care of her without any questions. The woman is in a strong depression as she does not have an appetite, and she is ready to receive a strange substance from a stranger just because she thinks it is a drug. Based on the nursing practice, I will sum up recovery strategies in the complex form that affects both her physical and psychological life. Eventually, I made up my mind and answered these questions.
In the beginning, she has a lack of eating due to the absence of appetite. Hence, as the absence of hunger is the consequence of eating drugs and being in a strong depression, she must resolve these two problems by entering a free club of drug and smoke addicts. This will normalize her pressure, give the appetite back and, possibly, take her out of depression (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2015). Secondly, the client should avoid rummaging in the rubbish with the help of subscribing to the local unemployment center. Here, she may attend a specialist in consulting people’s career possibilities. After a couple of days, she may find a job to gain a stable income and avoid the high risk of becoming heavily ill. Last but not least, after a couple of weeks of providing the strategies into real life, she may visit me again to fix her new health conditions and start tracing progress in all spheres of life.
To conclude, I examined an important aspect of nursing by recovering people from difficult life situations. Firstly, I made a physical and psychological portrait of my client to provide clarity in her state. Secondly, I asked myself a question about her past and present living conditions. Finally, I offered the best possible help as a nurse by building a viable strategic model of a patient’s recreation from these difficult circumstances.
Reference
Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2016). Public health nursing (9th ed.). Elsevier.