Desperately Need Help With Care Plans

Nursing Students Student Assist Nursing Q/A

Any help with care plans will be appreciated?

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
Sehsun said:
I apologize if this was addressed earlier in this thread. I am working on my first care plan and had a question - on the template, it asks for the "Primary medical dx." If my patient had a diagnosis of "OA of the right hip" but had a "right total hip arthroplasty" performed (and was the reason for the pt being hospitalized), would the arthroplasty or the OA be the primary medical dx?

The primary medical diagnosis is the "OA of the right hip". The arthroplasty is a medical procedure.

Hi , I just want to know if am on the righttrack. I have a 75 year old male pt with hematuria and urinary retention. He is on a continuous bloody irrigation foley with normal saline , his H&H have been low and he had a blood transfusion yesterday because of his low blood rbc and h& h. he has a hx of hypertension and diabetes. I am looking at risk for injury and altered tissue perfusion renal. am i on the right track, thanks

LVN2006 said:
any help?

Can u please help me in doing my nursing diagnosis? My assessment are + dyspnea, pale, restlessness, RR 30... I need a diagnosis using PES problem, etiology, s/s...

Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
rhaychelle said:
hello... can u please help me in doing my nursing diagnosis... my assessment are + dyspnea, pale, restlessness, RR 30... i need a diagnosis using PES problem, etiology, s/s...

What have you come up with so far? We'll be glad to assist you, but it will take the benefit out of your learning if we do it for you.

VickyRN said:
What have you come up with so far? We'll be glad to assist you, but it will take the benefit out of your learning if we do it for you.

Our professor didn't taught us on how to that so im hoping that u could help me to do the nursing diagnosis or just give me any example... coz I really don't have any idea...

Thank's for the help daytonite... Actually there is no given information about the patient's medical history or medical disease or medical condition... The only given was his assessment... because of that I find it a hard time in doing the nursing diagnosis...

I really appreciate your help tnx.... It's my first time to do this kind of diagnosis coz were just copying in the nanda... thanks again.

I need to do a nursing care plan based on nutrition. My client has a GT tube. The formula he is getting should meet his body requirements, so what would be a nursing diagnosis? Can i say he is at risk for altered nutrition, less than body requirements RT enteral feeding?

rnin2007 said:
Here is a sample of the last care plan I turned in. The first page is the "example" and the following pages show the 3 nursing diagnosis I chose, and the interventions/rationales that i included. Hope this helps.
The patient that I took care of this day had extensive facial lacerations, but was otherwise healthy...no other problems, and was ready to go home.

OMG. I been sitting here for almost all day to find some example of how to do care plan I finally found it. Thank yooooooou?! I am so happy.

I am a second year rpn student the course is 4 years part-time.

I have just found this site and i am amazed at the questions and the marvelous replies. I don't know if this is the kind of reply Iam to give but as I have not learned how to navigate yet I apologize. I am 52 years old, and yes the oldest person in the class, so I need all the help i can get. THANKS

Specializes in Geri-psych Nursing.
mary vandersluis said:
I am a second year rpn student the course is 4 years part-time.

I have just found this site and i am amazed at the questions and the marvelous replies. I don't know if this is the kind of reply Iam to give but as I have not learned how to navigate yet I apologize. I am 52 years old, and yes the oldest person in the class, so I need all the help i can get. THANKS

Mary, I'm 55 and in my 3rd semester of nursing school. And I'm the oldest in my class, too, but not by much. Your life experience will prove itself as you get into the critical thinking part of nursing, because you've lived long enough to know there's always a "big picture", so hang in there and keep blogging.

I am new to the site and i cannot seem to find a plce to post a question. I am doing a care plan on a pt that dehisced after have a lobe of the liver removed due to cancer. Hospital stay is 3 weeks. I am thinking that one a few of my nursing diagnosis' could be impaired mobility, infection and i have no idea of what to do for the third diagnosis. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hi daytonite,

Thanks for the reply. The patient has already had the liver surgery and two days later the incision dehisced and they repaired it. I was trying to do some type of diagnosis dealing with the dehisced wound and the impaired healing of a patient with diabetes. That is where my problem is. I understand that a diabetic has impaired tissue perfusion but I cannot phrase the implementations or rationale. Any ideas for that?

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