EXPLORATION OF PHYSICAL HEALTH POST STROKE

In about 80% of cases, stroke is the result of poor blood flow to the brain. The other 20% are caused by hemorrhage. This is an important distinction, as the treatments and outcomes can vary significantly between the two types.

Stroke can have a profound impact on a person's physical health and daily life. After a stroke, many individuals experience significant limitations and challenges. They may struggle with mobility, balance, coordination, and the ability to perform everyday tasks independently. Simple activities like getting dressed, bathing, or cooking can become extremely difficult.

Beyond the physical effects, stroke can also take a toll on a person's mental and emotional well-being. The sudden change in capabilities and loss of independence can be devastating, leading to feelings of frustration, depression, and anxiety.

It's crucial for healthcare providers, especially adult nurses, to be aware of the wide-ranging impacts of stroke. Understanding the specific limitations and needs of stroke survivors is essential for providing the appropriate care and support to help them adapt and regain as much function as possible.

Ultimately, stroke is a life-altering event that can profoundly change a person's daily life. By educating ourselves and others about the realities of post-stroke challenges, we can work to improve the quality of life for those affected by this serious medical condition.

MAIN BODY

Stroke is also known as Cerebrovascular accident, cerebrovascular Insult in Scientific language and brain attack in normal language. It is a condition where the amount of blood that is supplied to brain is not enough to keep the performance of body good s required. There are different reasons of this condition of a person (Benjamin and et.al., 2018). The part where the blood supply is not as usual do not get enough energy or do not get enough oxygen that is important for the normal functioning of body. All the functions of body are controlled by the brain and if any part of brain is not functioning then it can cause many other problems to the person in daily routine work. The main reason of this problem is about the dead cells in brain. Each part of brain controls different function and if that particular part is not functioning then it can prevent the person to perform certain functions. The reason of these dead cell is lack of blood supply and lack of oxygen. If blood cells are continuously lacking of blood supply they become dead and cannot control the functions of body. If a person is facing a stroke then there are some symptoms that can be lookout to evaluate the health of person. Min symptoms of stroke are- sudden numbness in body and weakness in face, arm and leg. It also can be evaluating that the person who is having stroke feels weakness in one part of body. This also can affect the mental condition of the person. Stroke can reduce the mental capabilities of person. Sudden confusion, trouble in speaking and difficulty in understanding the speech. This thing reflects the initial symptoms of stroke. This also can cause trouble in seeing from one or both eyes due to damage in respective part of brain (Mozaffarian and et.al., 2015). In normal condition people walk normally bun in suddenly they feel trouble in walking, loss of balance and dizziness. Person also can feel lack of coordination in finding direction and way. This is how the condition of stroke can be evaluated by these symptoms.

There are some risk factors for the condition of stroke that can increase the trouble of person. These main risks are- person who smoke have higher risk of facing stroke. The impact of stroke also will be higher for people who smokes (Winstein and et.al., 2016). High blood pressure is also considered as risk for person who is facing similar condition. Obesity is also major along with stroke. Cholesterol levels, diabetes, alcohol and stress is also big risk for patient. These all conditions are crucial for the health of person there are some other risks which can be taken in process are important to consider are- age of person, family history, ethnicity and medical history of individual person (Writing and et.al., 2016). This is how different other factors also can make the situation of stroke more critical and problematic.

Worldwide Statistical data of Stroke

As per the data of Internet stroke centre, there are 15 million people who suffer from stroke each year. From these 15 million people 5 million dies and 5 million of them disabled for rest of their life. Only 5 million people get proper cure from this condition. In the cases around 12.5 million the reason of stroke was high blood pressure (Stroke Statistics, 2019). On an average in European continent each year 650000 people die cause of stroke.

Stroke

These are some main criteria that can be evaluated in order to analyze the physical condition of the person. As in the initial part of report stroke is classified in two categories which are known as Ischemic and other one is hemorrhagic (Hemphill III and et.al., 2015). Ischemic Stroke is result of certain blockage in the vans that are carrying blood. This blockage reduces the blood supply to certain area of brain and it can cause stroke. The other type of stroke is known as haemorrhagic. In this type of stroke, the blood supply to the certain area of brain reduces due to rapture of blood cells. Most case that are visible in patients are of ischemic Stroke and only few of them are fall in category of Hemorrhagic stroke. Stroke affects the personal life of individual patient by reducing their personal capabilities and these are result of paralysis, Poor coordination, loss of feelings, lack of awareness and neglect one side of body (Sacco and et.al., 2016). This also results as difficulty in initiating movement or planning a sequence of movements. There are some things that are important for person to slow down, take time, plan a task and break down a long task in different small categories in order to keep work efficient. There are some most important activities of people are affected due to stroke are- swallowing and eating, dressing, domestic duties, leisure, toileting and driving. These are some activities where people feel difficulty.

Post Stroke Issue faces by Person and Nurse on Daily Life

Swallowing and Eating is one of the main activities that is basic need of people. To live a healthy life, it is important for person to eat food (Hackshaw and et.al., 2018). After facing stroke people feel major issue in swallowing and eating. Due to stroke person have less control on their muscle. For swallowing food this is important for person to have control on muscles, this control can help the person to swallow food easily. This problem is more critical when person is suffering from paralysis, in this condition person is not able to eat food on their own. For this condition medical assistance is required to feed food to the patient. In this case nursing staff uses a plastic tube that go through nose and down through throat to the stomach (Kyu and et.al., 2016). This is important to use this tube in order to feed the person. Without this tube this is not possible to provide nutritious diet to patient. In condition of stroke person can choke with food and even on own saliva. The semi solid food is delivered through this plastic tube. Patient cannot consume solid food because they do not have control on their jaw movement and tongue and it is difficult for them to chewing the food. The coughing and choking are main signs that drink of food has entered the wind pipe. This condition can lead to pneumonia. This is how the person find difficulty in eating and swallowing food.

Dressing is also a daily task that is performed by person on routine basis. Weakness on the one side of body, less control on body movement and lack of coordination are main symptoms of stroke. These are activities where person feel lacking. This is not possible for them to dress on their own (Soares-Miranda and et.al., 2016). This is really difficult for person to get dressed with weak body. Getting dressed is a long sequential task that needs effective planning for execution. With stroke and less muscle control it is difficult for person to remember this sequential task. So, this is really difficult for person to effectively dressed without having trouble. Each garment takes different process to get dressed, this thing makes the process of dressing more difficult for patient.

There are some activities are also need to be performed by the person. These tasks are simple in operation but people feel difficulty in performing these tasks (Thompson and et.al., 2015). The tasks that are known as domestic tasks are- cleaning, vacuuming, dusting, polishing, washing, laundry and ironing. These tasks are simpler than other complex tasks but it needs physical activity of person. Due to physical harms of stroke patient are not capable of performing physical task. Weakness, dizziness and sleepiness can reduce the capability of person. This is how patient that is under recovery process feel difficulty in performing such domestic tasks.

There are some tasks which are associated with the personal interest and hobbies of person. There are certain difficulties are faced by people. They find difficulties in gripping or holding things which is important for daily routine tasks. This is big challenge for person to perform these activities with high efficiency. Pain, tiredness and vision issues also reduce the capability of individual person. This is how stroke can prevent a person to perform those activities which are of their interest.

Toileting is also a regular activity of persons life. After the stroke till few weeks’ patient do not have full control of body and continuous weakness regularly affect their personal life (Chen and et.al., 2017). Due to less control on body muscle and reduced efficiency of brain can affect the capability of finding the urgency of toileting. This is how person is not able to control these actions. After the recovery process patient might be able to perform these tasks. Driving is one of the activities that is performed by person on regular basis as a routine. For the people who have to go outside for job and they usually prefer driving. This is major trouble for them to drive car or any vehicle. Stroke reduce the capability coordination, focusing and finding direction. This limitation due to stroke can cause difficulty for person to drive. They might feel lost or less vision capability can affect their driving ability. It also can lead to major or minor accident.

This is how Mr. William King can these troubles in daily life after facing symptoms of stroke or Cerebrovascular Accident. Stroke is a physical condition where physical and mental condition of person restrict them to perform some activities.

Related Topic: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Accountability of Nursing roles in personal Care of Patient

Stroke can be considered as medical emergency. In this condition role of adult nurse is crucial. They are required to perform different activities in order to provide maximum support to patient. These activities of adult nurse can help the patient in difficult condition for survival. In normal condition family member can help the patient to perform daily routine task but in condition of stroke this this is not possible for patient to perform different activities with medical support. In the initial stage of stroke there is a process is followed by the medical staff to evaluate and analyse the physical and mental condition of patient (Derdeyn and et.al., 2017). This activity is known as FAST. This acronym of face, arm, speech and time. This process can be used to analysis the responsiveness of person in situation of stroke. These are basic signs that helps the medical staff to check the physical condition of patient. F represents that, if the face of person is dropping on one side it is first symptom of stroke, if the person is asked to lift both arm and patient find difficulty in uplifting one arm is reflects physical weakness in one side of body. In the third condition if the person looks jumbled, slurred and lost in speaking so this is the right time to call ambulance for medical assistance. This is the condition where adult nurse can help a person to evaluate health condition before stroke. The role is nursing staff is more crucial after the stroke. There are some activities which needs the medical assistance for successful execution.

Nursing staff can help the patient to perform different routine tasks which cannot be completed without medical assistance. From the time of stroke patient need full medical assistance to survive and perform different activities that cannot be completed without support of medical support. In this condition adult nurse can help person in different manner. For example, there are three main process that need medical assistance which are monitoring, medication and medical support. These are three main operation of nurse can provide better support to person. Monitoring can be considered as the activity that provide better knowledge of physical and mental measures. This is important for medical staff to know the health condition of patient. By effective tracking people can help the doctors to keep effective track on physical condition of person. This can allow them to effectively kept the health data of person to perform change in medication and doses of medicines. By this process nursing staff can provide better health support to person. Medication is also a big trouble in the condition of stroke to maintain effective medication. In some cases, medication required frequent changes in order to keep patient healthy. The number of doses is depended on the response of patient. By this effective monitoring of medical staff can help them to provide better service to person. The third activity perform by medical nurse is about providing medical assistance in adverse situation. In medical emergency condition adult nurse can help individual person to get [primary medication and advance level medical support before transferring to AMU.

There are different things that I have learned from the presentation that is based on the stroke and impact of stroke on the body of individual person. I have gained basic knowledge of stroke that can help to find the symptoms in patient in initial phases of stroke and also, I have learned that what are primary measures are need to be consider for the patient who have suffered from Stroke.

REFLECTION

There are different things has been learned in this case. As per the case study I have analysed different measures to evaluate the health condition of individual patient. There are different things I have considered in the process of learning the case study of Mr. William King who is facing situation of stroke after condition of long term depression and mental pressure. As per the physical and mental condition of patient I have learned that what kind of support they need. In various situations these patients need support of medical staff and care givers to perform these activities. By this process I have analysed that how the medical person can help patient in these cases. From this case study I have evaluated that how the physical illness and weakness can restrict most of daily routine activities of person.

CONCLUSION

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