Question

IN NURSING PRACTICE MAY2019 30062749 [8wk]> Assignments> M5D1: Helping a patient m ission Details 1: Helping a patient manage their glaucoma Initial Discussion Post An older patient reports his vision is good even though he has been diagnosed with glaucoma; his medical history includes diabetes and COPD He has been taking his ordered daily eye drops sporadically, usually forgetting them. His IOP has not dropped as desired. The patient indicates his friend is taking a different eye drop than him for glaucoma and the timolol maleate is working well. He thinks this eye drop would be better for him. How would you educate him & his spouse regarding: the disease process, how it can affect the patient, and the treatment plan including the eye drops? How can you get his engagement and increase his compliance with the treatment plan? Initial Post: #1 Identify at least 1 teaching point(s) concerning each of the following: . Disease process/progression . Changes patient can expect .Eye drop treatment # 2 Identify how you will teach this patient to increase his compliance with the plan? Responses to Peers: Consider your peerls) interventions and describe how closely it aligns with patient-centered care 1. Discuss factors that make this patient more or less compliant with glaucomatreatment plans with your pcers

Answer 1

- One teaching potential concerning disease process and progression is explaining about the disease in detail to the patient and spouse and how increased IOP would cause damage to the eye.

- Teaching potential concerning changes patient can expect is explaining about the adverse effects which could be visible in vision due to poor compliance and explaining that different individuals would need different kind of eye drops depending on the cause of glucoma .

- Teaching potential concerning eye drop is explaining them about the proper method of administration and importance of compliance .

2. Interventions to increase the compliance of eye drop administration are :-

- Explaining the importance of medication

- Explaining the adverse effects it could have like vision loss

- Explaining the proper method of administration

- Having regular follow ups