Population Focused Nursing Care of the Older Adult and Family

Journal Guidelines

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Instructions: Reflection and analysis of critical incidents are important learning strategies. A critical incident is a positive or negative event that raises questions for you and has an impact on your learning.

1. Discuss a critical incident you experienced in your practicum. What were you thinking and feeling during this experience?

2. Relate appropriate gerontological nursing competencies to the critical incident discussed above

3. Analysis what you learned from this critical incident and if you would do anything differently with a similar situation next time. How did this experience enhance your learning about caring for the older adult?

4. What did you learn about yourself, i.e. biases, assumptions, strengths, and areas to improve?

5. Format (grammar, spelling, complete sentences)

Patient Introduction
Red Yoder is an 80-year-old male with a pressure ulcer on his right great toe that developed about five weeks ago. His current medical problems include type 2 diabetes.

He has been treated at home with an oral antibiotic and wet to damp saline dressings daily. The home health agency nurse has been checking the wound twice a week. Dr. Baker has admitted him with possible wound infection and has written preliminary orders.

He has just arrived with his daughter-in-law, Judy, and they are waiting in room 2. The lab technician has been by to draw labs, obtain wound culture, and insert an IV.

The patient developed sepsis due to the wound infection was put on antibiotic and the patient was very confused due to the infection.