Any time a patient comes back from surgery, you can always use r/f infection and pain. I would also add r/f injury r/t decreased cardiac output, r/f impaired tissue perfusion, or deficient knowledge.
My teachers are always big on safety and deficient knowledge for everything!
The way our instructors are, they want the most IMPORTANT diagnosis so if i were assignd to this pt., the ones i'd use would be Risk for Infection, Risk for Ineffective Tissue Perfussion, Risk for Injury, and Pain.
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Ok if a patient was getting a heart transplant Can I use
risk for infection for a patient that have received a heart transplant? Can I also use pain?