Assignment task:
Medical Diagnosis: Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 1 (SMA-1) with chronic respiratory failure. - SINCE BIRTH
Patient: 8 years old girl (on mechanical ventilation via tracheostomy)
1) List Nursing considerations
2) Patient's chronological development
- What is your patient's chronologic age?
- How has this diagnosis affected the patient physically?
- Cognitively?
- Developmentally?
- Compare your patient's developmental milestones to normal milestones for that age