Using Your Past and Present Experience of Nursing Practice Settings Consider Situations Where You Have Helped to Care or Interact with Children

Whilst on clinical placement, in Critical Care, I cared for a male patient who had a 9 year old daughter with Cystic Fibrosis. The girl will be referred to as Ellie throughout this essay, in order to maintain confidentiality, as recommended by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2002).
Ellie has a 5 year old brother and an 11 year old sister and lives with her mum and dad. Her dad was my patient and had been admitted to Critical Care routinely following surgery.
In this case study I will discuss the possible affects that Ellie's chronic illness had on her, and on her family. …