Reference no: EM133260222

Your patient, an elderly woman who rarely has visitors, has put on her call light so that she might introduce you to her daughter. After introductions, the patient indicates that her daughter visits whenever possible, as she is frequently traveling. Out of the patient's hearing, the daughter indicates that she intends on meeting with your director of nursing to discuss her mother's care. During the meeting, she indicates that her mother is the most important thing in her life, and then begins to describe her extensive recreational travel and multiple profitable real estate holdings. She is quite critical of her mother's care and outlines a long list of nursing care that she expects to be performed by your staff, frequently emphasizing that she expects all expenses to be covered by her mother's Medicare insurance. At the end of the meeting, she leaves her housekeeper's phone number for staff to contact if there are questions regarding her mother's care. (Learning Objectives 3, 7, and 10)

a. What pertinent data can you gather based on your patient's information?

b. In applying the valuing process to this scenario, what does the patient's daughter value?

c. As the elderly woman's nurse, what ethical issues should be addressed in this situation and how should they be addressed?

d. How would you advocate on behalf of your patient in this situation?