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Care Plan Help Please :)

I'm making a care plan on a pt who just had a radical mastectomy, I'm going to do do risk for infection... I've been looking in my Med Surg book and I can't find what a pt WBC would be after a radical mastectomy. I am wondering if anyone knows what the count would be after one. Thank-you :)

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    Hopefully it's normal after surgery. I'm assuming you're also looking for several other indicators of infection.

    Has she had any other treatment? Could that affect the white cell count?

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    Yeah I'm looking for indicators for my assessment.

    Other treatments, in the past shes had chemo, leep for her cervical deplasia.

    she has asthma and allegies and she still smokes 1/2 pack a day.

    This is just a case scenario teachers made for us at school.. We have to do pathos, make care plan, make a plan of care (what will i do for my shift with this pt) and fill out a kardex.

    This isn't even for marks, it's for skills testing. If our documentation is bad we get send away and can't do our skills test.

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    How recent was the chemo? What type? Why is that important - particularly for the question you asked in your first post?

    What other signs and symptoms might you assess for? It's probably a little harder using a case scenario instead of a real patient that you can completely assess, but there are still tons of directions you can go on this one.

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