Care Plan Help

[mwright4]

I'm working on a care plan for my clinical rotation in mom/baby nursing. My care plan in on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)and I need to know of some nursing interventions that would be done for a newborn that has been diagnosed with ROP.

Thanks for the help

[RunBabyRN]

What do you have so far? What do you know about ROP? What led to the interventions that caused the ROP?

We won't list it all out for you, but we can help you if you share what you have so far. :)

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Your care plan is based upon assessment data. You don't just pick a medical diagnosis (like ROP) and then make nursing diagnosis. To make nursing diagnoses to give you direction when you plan nursing care that you will deliver or delegate, you need to look at a patient and assess for data. No data, no diagnosis possible. Could your physician justify a diagnosis of anemia without a CBC? Nope.

So, if this is a hypothetical plan of care for an imaginary patient, your starting point is to read up on ROP, see what your nursing texts tell you to expect to see when you assess a child c it, and then look in your nursing diagnosis reference (NANDA-I 2012-2014, accept no other) for those findings to see what nursing diagnosis(es) you can make from them. Remember, your physician doesn't "pick" a medical diagnosis, s/he makes a diagnosis based on findings. Nurses, meaning you, do the same: You make diagnoses based on findings.