Testicular tuition is a genital urinary emergency that can lead to unfortunate patient outcomes. Care for these patients in a timely and effective manner will promote better patient outcomes. The purpose of this article is to discuss symptomology and clinical presentation of testicular torsion. Risk factors associated with testicular torsion and diagnostics are presented. Furthermore, emergent and effective nursing care in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative processes is reviewed. Nursing implications as it relates to best practices and evidence-based care are presented for the nurse generalist and advanced practice nurse.
A living case study was presented to senior-level nursing students in a medical-surgical nursing course to utilize critical thinking and promote patient-centered care. The case study presented 2 actual patients with the same diagnosis. The presentation included patient demographics, clinical symptomatology, progression of the illness, diagnostic testing, treatment, and discharge planning. The patients joined the presentation via a virtual platform offering the students the opportunity to converse with each patient. Students could ask patients clarifying questions and learn more about the patients' clinical course. Students applied knowledge gained from their didactic course regarding the disease process to work together in small groups. Within the small groups, students identified the patients' assessment, risk factors, psychosocial concerns, laboratory tests, diagnostics, potential and actual complications related to the treatments/procedures, nursing interventions, medications, and patient teaching. The students worked collaboratively to develop an individualized plan of care by comparing the needs of each patient. Following the live patient session, faculty used debriefing strategies to encourage self-reflection and determine the effectiveness of the activity. The students discussed the importance of the realism of the activity in generating individualized patient care plans to improve overall patient outcomes. This activity can be tailored to any disease process or patient to meet the student learning objectives of any course.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.