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    An 83-year-old woman named Betty Olsen has been experiencing shoulder, chest, and neck pain for three days along with nausea and trouble sleeping. Her blood pressure was found to be elevated and she appeared distressed, pale, and sweaty. She was confined to bed this morning feeling weak and tired. Her general practitioner could not see her until tomorrow so the night nurse is requesting her urgent admission to the emergency department due to the worsening of her condition.

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    An 83-year-old woman named Betty Olsen has been experiencing shoulder, chest, and neck pain for three days along with nausea and trouble sleeping. Her blood pressure was found to be elevated and she appeared distressed, pale, and sweaty. She was confined to bed this morning feeling weak and tired. Her general practitioner could not see her until tomorrow so the night nurse is requesting her urgent admission to the emergency department due to the worsening of her condition.

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    An 83-year-old woman named Betty Olsen has been experiencing shoulder, chest, and neck pain for three days along with nausea and trouble sleeping. Her blood pressure was found to be elevated and she appeared distressed, pale, and sweaty. She was confined to bed this morning feeling weak and tired. Her general practitioner could not see her until tomorrow so the night nurse is requesting her urgent admission to the emergency department due to the worsening of her condition.

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    Betty Olsen (OET)

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    An 83-year-old woman named Betty Olsen has been experiencing shoulder, chest, and neck pain for three days along with nausea and trouble sleeping. Her blood pressure was found to be elevated and she appeared distressed, pale, and sweaty. She was confined to bed this morning feeling weak and tired. Her general practitioner could not see her until tomorrow so the night nurse is requesting her urgent admission to the emergency department due to the worsening of her condition.

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    Emergency Department

    Spirit Hospital

    10/07/2012

    Re: Ms Betty Olsen, aged 83

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    I am writing this letter to request to urgently admit Ms Olsen, a resident of Golden Pond
    Retirement Village, who has had a sudden onset of pain in her shoulder, chest and neck for the
    past three days.

    Ms Olsen couldn't have her evening meal as she was feeling slightly nauseous. Due to pain in
    her shoulder and neck, she was having trouble sleeping despite being given 1 Normison and 2
    Panadol tablets. When she was rechecked 45 minutes later, she complained of persistent chest
    pain and was found to be distressed, pale and sweaty. Additionally, her BP was 190/100.
    Hence, she had to be shifted immediately.

    Today morning, owing to Ms Olsen feeling generally weak and tired, she was confined to bed.
    Her GP was called who said would visit tomorrow after surgery. However, since her condition
    worsened all of a sudden, we could no longer wait.

    Please note, Ms Olsen is a patient of hypothyroidism, hypertension and glaucoma and takes
    daily medications for the same but is allergic to penicillin. She is also arthritic in her hands. The
    details of all her medications are attached to this letter.

    Being her night nurse, I am well aware of her health condition, so should you have any queries,
    please feel free to contact me.

    Thank You

    Yours faithfully,
    Night Nurse

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