Originally Posted by jonndell
Hi! I'm new to this site and I came across your post and I'm actually creating a care plan similar to the one you just posted. My instructor told us to provide 2 short term goals and 1 long term goal for each nursing diagnosis. I see that you have posted a long term goal for this nursing diagnosis, but what can you suggest as short term goals for this?
NDx:
Impared skin intergity r/t decreased mobility (bed bound), AEB moist warm reddened areas on bilateral buttocks
Hi, jonndell, and welcome to allnurses!
Goals are a result of planned nursing interventions. We know nothing about the nursing interventions you have planned for your patient so how can we suggest short term goals for him? Your goals for any patient are directly related to and must correlated with the specific nursing interventions that you have determined in your care plan for your patient. Each care plan is specific to each patient's needs.
Goal statements have four components:
- A behavior
- this is the desired patient response/action you expect to see/hear as a direct result of your nursing interventions.
- you must be able to observe the behavior
- It is measurable
- criteria that identifies exactly what you are measuring in terms of
- how much
- how long
- how far
- on what scale you are using
- Sets the conditions under which the behavior should occur
- such conditions as
- take into account the patient's overall state of health (this requires knowing the pathophysiology of their disease process)
- take into account the patient's ability to meet the goals you are recommending
- it is a good idea to get the patient's agreement to meet the intended goal so both the nurse and the patient are working toward the same goal
- have a realistic time frame for completing the goal
- long-term goals usually take weeks or months
- short-term goals can take as little time as a day
- it all depends on knowing what your nursing interventions are designed to do and what you believe your patient is capable of doing.
You can find care plan information on this other sticky thread of allnurses as well:
You should also start a new thread in the Nursing Student Assistance Forum (http://allnurses.com/forums/f205/) to get specific help with questions about your care plan where I will see it.
This thread also has information on writing goal statements:
http://allnurses.com/forums/f205/how-write-nursing-goal-312157.html#post2919595 - How to write a nursing GOAL?
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