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My patient is a 90 Year-old lady with a recent hip dislocation that has been reduced. So now she wears a hip brace. She has osteoarthritis. Needing some help with some appropriate NANDA's and a primary Nursing Diagnosis to focus on for interventions and such.

Thanks so much:):nuke:

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

Well...what do you have so far.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

there's is very little i can do for you. diagnosing is based upon the signs and symptoms that the patient has. what you need to do is take the medical diagnoses and break them down into their signs and symptoms. see if your patient has any of them. you should have assessed the patient for her ability to perform her adls. look up the reasons for why she is receiving all her medications and treatments. look up complications of her diseases and treatments. look up the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis. then, from the abnormal data that falls out, the nursing diagnoses will be found. every nursing diagnosis has a set of signs and symptoms. a care plan is the determination of the patient's nursing problems and strategies to do something about them. the nursing process is used to help in identifying them. there are lots of threads on this forum that you can look at where i have assisted students in how to apply the nursing process to determine the nursing diagnosis for their care plans.

  1. assessment (collect data from medical record, do a physical assessment of the patient, assess adl's, look up information about your patient's medical diseases/conditions to learn about the signs and symptoms and pathophysiology)
    • a physical assessment of the patient
    • assessment of the patient's ability and any assistance they need to accomplish their adls (activities of daily living) with the disease
    • data collected from the medical record (information in the doctor's history and physical, information in the doctor's progress notes, test result information, notes by ancillary healthcare providers such as physical therapists and dietitians
    • knowing the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, usual tests ordered, and medical treatment for the medical disease or condition that the patient has. this includes knowing about any medical procedures that have been performed on the patient, their expected consequences during the healing phase, and potential complications. if this information is not known, then you need to research and find it.

[*]determination of the patient's problem(s)/nursing diagnosis (make a list of the abnormal assessment data, match your abnormal assessment data to likely nursing diagnoses, decide on the nursing diagnoses to use). it helps to have a book with nursing diagnosis reference information in it. there are a number of ways to acquire this information.

[*]planning (write measurable goals/outcomes and nursing interventions)

  • goals/outcomes are the predicted results of the nursing interventions you will be ordering and performing. they have the following overall effect on the problem:
    • improve the problem or remedy/cure it
    • stabilize it
    • support its deterioration

    [*]how to write goal statements: https://allnurses.com/forums/2509305-post158.html

    [*]interventions are of four types

    • assess/monitor/evaluate/observe (to evaluate the patient's condition)
      • note: be clear that this is assessment as an intervention and not assessment done as part of the initial data collection during step 1.

      [*]care/perform/provide/assist (performing actual patient care)

      [*]teach/educate/instruct/supervise (educating patient or caregiver)

      [*]manage/refer/contact/notify (managing the care on behalf of the patient or caregiver)

[*]implementation (initiate the care plan)

[*]evaluation (determine if goals/outcomes have been met)

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