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This essay will discuss a patient who is currently experiencing a health breakdown whilst briefly describing the care placement setting, social background and recent history which has led to their health breakdown. The author will describe what the patient understands about their illness and any factors such as social, psychological or biological that may have contributed. The essay will describe how the illness has affected the patient and their significant others and will focus primarily on one area of nursing care which has been given and how and why the staff gave this care including what information they needed to make their decisions. The true identity of the patient, being discussed throughout this essay will be protected thus complying with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct (2002). For the duration of this essay the author will refer to the patient as 'Susan'. The author first encountered the female patient at the local Hospital on...

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