Daniel is a 16 year old boy who is an identical twin. He and his brother Jeff are very close and do most things together. While Daniel excels at sports he believe his brother is much better at most everything. Daniel, his brother. and their two sisters live with their parents, in the Midwest Recently Daniel has been feeling more tired than usual. He thought it was because of his schedule and school work, which he is fairly good at. He gets mostly Bs. but his grades have been slipping of late. One day he fain, while getting ready for a game. His coach called his parents to Id Nem know Daniel was taken to the Emerge, Room. While there the doctor decided to admit Daniel to Me hospital for observation. At Me time he was running a slight fever, his breathing was shallow, and he was sweating. He was also very sleepy and his blood pressure was high. He did have some abnormal laboratory work but his doctor was not too concerned at present. Daniel also stated that he felt achy.
You are assigned to take care of Daniel today and when you walk into his room, his mother and brother Jeff are there. Daniel appears to be sleeping. In your written assignment respond to the following questions applying the nursing process:
What type of objective and subjective data can you collect with what you know?
How will you collect these data? What further evidence do you need?
What do you believe Daniels problem(s) are?