Nursing Assessment

Introduction

Present coursework provides thorough of the client 's nursing assessment using RAM theory . One of the focuses of the study is on the differences in terminology , application of the nursing processes , and organization of data between RAM and NSM theories . Assessment is realized based on the client 's case-study

RAM theory and its implications for the client 's nursing assessment

There is no denying the importance of the fact , that RAM theory is based on understanding of the people , who are forced to adapt to certain circumstances during difficult life

conditions , especially due to health problems , which bears direct connotations for nursing . The founder of RAM , Roy identifies three distinct levels of the model : recipient of nursing care , nursing objectives and nursing intervention itself (Alligood and Tomey , 139

Nursing practice in accordance to RAM includes the following elements assessing client 's behavior and its motivating factors , defining problems , setting aims , designing interventions and assessing risks and results . In these conditions , nursing function is to provide the client with positive stimuli , which would foster his accommodation to treatment , as well as psychological and social difficulties , which may accompany it (Haynes , Boesa and Butcher , 2004

Nursing assessment should address client 's physiological and psycho-social modes , which are central to his rehabilitation . The first mode addresses fostering successful medical treatment , while the second refers to client 's adaptation to immobility and temporal loss of social activity

RAM theory , if applied to the proposed client 's case , should provoke the following...