I'm really at a loss here, any help is appreciated. My patient is a 57-year-old female with a history of diabetes, partial hysterectomy, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. She was admitted 16 days ago with right-sided stroke and she now has a flaccid left side. She is a medium fall risk vital signs of been stable, has no known drug allergies, hearing is intact, but attends occupational therapy for one and a half hours a day for auditory speech and balance. Attends physical therapy from more than 35 minutes per day.
Labs:
Troponin-
Na-137 mEq/L
K-3.4 mEq/L
Chloride-100 mEq/L
HCO3-27 mEq/L
BUN-8 mg/dL
Creatinine-0.7 mg/dL
Glucose-87 mg/dL
Liver Function-Normal
AST-15 U/L
ALT-20 U/L
WBC-11.7 x 10^3µ/L
Hgb12.6 g/dL
Hct-36.5%
Platelets-338 x 10^3µL
My problem here in my opinion, is a lot of her diagnoses are risk for diagnoses. However my instructor does not want us to do at risk for in our care plans, she wants us to do our care plan on actual problems. While taking care of this woman the only thing I noticed was her left-sided weakness, her memory and speech seemed completely intact to me, she seemed to have very little complications r/t the stroke, she was sharp as a tack. I have to list all of the diagnoses that apply but i'm only doing a care plan on 2 of them and it has to be the TOP 2, i have impaired physical mobility, but thats all i have, she doesn't even want us doing anything like Bathing self care deficit (anything to do with ADLS), so i guess basically she wants us to make it up. If i'm leaving anything out let me know and i'll give you the information.