Undergone total hip replacement

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Record how you would respond to each of the following patients' statements. Do not concern yourself with how 'right' or 'wrong' your responses are but do try to make them helpful to the patient. Assume that all statements are made to you, the nurse caring for the patient making the statement.

A hospitalised 65-year-old woman, who has recently undergone a total hip replacement: 'How am I ever going to manage on my own when I return home?'

A hospitalised patient speaking to a first-year nursing student: 'Do you know what you are doing? How much experience have you had?'

A 20-year-old woman who is undergoing diagnostic tests on an outpatient basis: 'The doctor keeps evading my questions. What is really going on?'

A mother of a five-week-old baby during a routine visit to an early childhood centre: 'I wish I could get a decent night's sleep like I used to.'

A long-term resident of a nursing home: 'I can't stand being here. There's nothing to do and no one ever comes to visit me.'

A 20-year-old man who is hospitalised with a fractured femur following a motor vehicle accident: 'Why do these things always have to happen to me? Bad things always happen to me.'

A hospitalised patient during medication rounds in hospital: 'I think all these tablets are really making me sleepy.'

A hospitalised patient during morning care: 'I have asked the doctors how long they think I have to live, but they keep avoiding the question. Will you tell me, please?'

A hospitalised patient during morning nursing rounds: 'I'm so glad to see you. Those nurses on the night shift just don't help me.'

A 70-year-old man in an outpatient clinic following consultation with a doctor: 'If what the doctor says is true, I don't see the point in going on and suffering ... better to just end it now.

Each of the statements presented indicates a situation that requires further exploration by the nurse - more information, clarification and/or elaboration is required. Review your responses and decide which of your responses do explore the patient's statement. Mark these with a tick.

Write a new response for those not marked. Try to make this revised response an exploratory one.

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