Case Description
John Moore is a 78-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital due to a fall. Past medical history, he had a stroke couple of years ago which paralysed the right side of his body, which caused swallowing problems and speech difficulty. John struggles to feed himself at the hospital therefore the student nurse (myself) assisted him with mealtimes and ensured to gain consent. John nodded his head to confirm his consent, however this was not enough, therefore the nurse used another method which was to write it on a piece of paper and John wrote yes to confirm.
The multidisciplinary team who are involved in this case are the following:
• Doctors
• Physiotherapist
• Speech and Language Therapist
• Dietician
• Nurse
1. Introduction – (250 words)
1. Care intervention- create a discussion for critically analysis
2. Professional- communication, consent (discuss all three types of consent ( 500 words)
3. legal issues- documentation, data protection act, the government influence of care delivery, (500words)
4. Ethics- Anatomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, Justice. critically analyse harm vs no harm. Bio medical model, theories, (Beauchamp) critically address, deontology, utilitarianism. (500 words)
5. MDT – discuss multi-disciplinary team what is the challenge about MDT? Advantages and (500 words)
6. Conclusion- (250 words)
