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General Nursing Case Study Guideline

The document outlines the guidelines for nursing care studies required for a diploma in Kenya Registered Nursing and Midwifery. Students must submit three case studies, focusing on either medical or surgical cases, with specific formatting and content requirements including patient history, management, literature review, home visits, and a nursing care plan. The document emphasizes adherence to APA referencing style and proper grammar and spelling.

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General Nursing Case Study Guideline

The document outlines the guidelines for nursing care studies required for a diploma in Kenya Registered Nursing and Midwifery. Students must submit three case studies, focusing on either medical or surgical cases, with specific formatting and content requirements including patient history, management, literature review, home visits, and a nursing care plan. The document emphasizes adherence to APA referencing style and proper grammar and spelling.

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DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

DIPLOMA IN KENYA REGISTERED NURSING AND MIDWIFERY


GENERAL NURSING CASE STUDY GUIDELINES
REQUIREMENTS

1. The student is required to submit three nursing care studies


2. The student shall select an appropriate patient and inform the clinical mentor
and the class coordinator who will determine suitability of the case for a
nursing care study. Suitable cases are: Medical case or Surgical Case.
3. The length of the nursing care assignment should be 2,500 to 3,000 words,
hand written or typed.
4. The referencing and formatting style should use the APA guidelines.

MAIN AREAS OF THE CARE STUDY/FORMAT

Cover page

PART I: PATIENT’S INFORMATION

Patients History

 Introduction: This should be a brief overview of the patient’s condition.


 Comprehensive history of the patient to include:

 Biographic Data
 Chief complaint
 History of present illness (Summary)
 Past Medical history
 Past surgical history
 Family and Social history
 Obstetric history and Gynecology history
Admission Process

 Types of admission
 General survey
 Reaction to hospitalization
 Immediate interventions/Management during admission
 Physical examination to include vital signs and others as appropriate
 Investigations done to include routine and specific
 Medical Diagnosis
PART II: SUBSEQUENT MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT

 Description of medical-surgical management


 Description of specific nursing management
 Patient education/Health education to the patient
 Rehabilitative care i.e. Supportive devices (where applicable),
Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, counselling, social services and any
other specialist services (where applicable).
Description of the Drugs used.
 Classification
 Mode of action
 Dosage and route of administration
 Indications and contraindications
 Side effects and adverse effects
 Nursing responsibilities
 NURSING CARE PLAN: A comprehensive nursing care plan that covers a
period of 24 hours should be attached.
PART III: LITERATURE REVIEW

Disease picture

 This shall consist of a theoretical discussion of the patient’s illness using


references from literature.
 The student shall be expected to include the following in his/her
discussion: Literature on the Condition to include:
 Definition of diagnosis
 Causes/predisposing factors
 Pathophysiology
 Clinical features (specific and general)
 Management (Medical/ Surgical & Nursing)
 Comparison of the actual management of the case and the management as
suggested by the review of literature (What was similar? Are there any
differences? Any rationale for the differences?
 Health education on discharge.
PART IV: HOME VISITS

 Indicate the objectives and rationale for each visit.


 Explain the problems identified and the findings
 Explain the nursing interventions given at home.

PART V: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND


RECOMMENDATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY//REFERENCES: Use APA referencing style.

APPENDICES: To include the Nursing Care Plan

NOTE!!!

a) Follows the care study guideline


b) Use of correct grammar and spelling
c) Legible handwriting.
d) The General Nursing Care Study shall be one of the preliminary requirement
for The Nursing Care of a Patient Assessment.

PREPARED BY: MR. HUMPHREY ONYANGO

(Module lecturer/Class Coordinator)

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