Week 8 Assignment Question: Care of a licensed practical nurse

Week 8 Assignment Question: Care of a licensed practical nurse

Assignment: The LPN and the patient requiring tube feedings. Go over the case study on Chapter 5 and submit APA Paper.

Instructions: In Chapter 5, a patient was transferred to a nursing facility under the care of a licensed practical nurse. The nurse failed to follow tube feeding directions on a timely basis and this eventually led to the patient dying. Answer the following questions in the form of an APA paper: In Chapter 5, a patient was moved to a nursing home where a licensed practical nurse took care of them. The patient died because the nurse didn’t follow the instructions for feeding the patient through a tube quickly enough. Use an APA paper to answer the following questions:

a. What were the physician’s orders during the transfer from the hospital to the nursing care facility?

b. In your opinion, what should the care team done differently to avoid such a dire outcome?

c. What was the nurse’s responsibility when assessing the patient and realizing she would not have the feeding tube available in a timely manner?

d. Should the care team have discharged this patient to this level of care or not and why?

Paper must be at least 1 page, excluding title page and reference page. (at least 1 reference no more than 5 years old), make sure to reference the article.