fluid volume deficit outcome peds?

[bymysoultosqueezeRN]

I'm doing a care plan for a child with viomiting and diarrhea with diagnosis of fluid volume deficit. One of my short term goals is

Client will have moist musous membranes and normal skin turgor by the end of the shift.

Any ideas what other outcome can I put there?

In overall goal I put client will have no signs of dehydration of fluid loss as evidanced by appropriate skin turgor, moist mucous membranes and blood pressure and pulse withing normal limist for the client.

I'm having really hard time comming up with the second short term goal since in the lond term goal I listed all the sings of appropriate fluid volume.

Please help!

[Jolie, BSN]

How about serum electrolytes and urine specific gravity WNL?

[bymysoultosqueezeRN]

How about serum electrolytes and urine specific gravity WNL?

but would I be able to assess that by the end of the shift?

[Jolie, BSN]

Urine specific gravity is checked at the nurse's discretion, so you can do it any time.

As far as electrolytes, that depends upon how often they are ordered.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

Goals and outcomes are all related to and based upon your interventions or what symptoms your interventions are treating and the underlying etiology of the problem. My guess is the dehydration is due to vomiting and diarrhea? Goals and outcomes: reverse the vomiting and diarrhea, complications of them or the cause of them. That's what your interventions are aimed at, aren't they? Your goals and outcomes are pretty much the opposite of the symptoms--if the symptoms didn't exist, there would be no problem (nursing diagnosis) in the first place. All the elements making up the care plan are related (abnormal assessment data = nursing diagnosis = goals + interventions, then implementation, then evaluating if the goals are achieved, i.e. did the interventions work? did the symptoms go away? is the problem solved?)