Help with Assignment

[Moon Penguin]

hi all, just wondering if someone could help me start my assignment off??

assignment 1 topic

in nur109, students are introduced to fundamental aspects of nursing practice that are critical to the health and well being of any patient in any setting and to the nursing process as a framework to guide the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care in general medical/surgical settings.

in assignment 1, students are required to demonstrate their ability to critically apply the knowledge gained in nur109 to one of the following aspects of fundamental nursing care.

task

(1) select one of the following aspects of fundamental nursing care

• promoting and supporting sleep
  
• promoting and supporting personal hygiene
  
• promoting and maintaining skin integrity
  
• promoting and supporting adequate nutrition
  

(2) using the framework below, discuss the nursing management of your chosen topic in a general medical/surgical setting.

you must include evidence and/or rationales for your nursing management decisions.

• as part of the introduction to your assignment, provide a one paragraph (approx 150-200 words) overview of why your chosen topic is critical to a patient's health and wellbeing.
  
• in relation to your chosen topic, what nursing assessments are appropriate and required to assess the patient's functional health status?
  
• formulate 2-3 actual nursing diagnoses that might apply to your chosen topic. each nursing diagnosis must identify what it might be related to and what nursing assessment findings might support it.
  
• for each nursing diagnosis you identify above, discuss what nursing interventions you would implement to address the nursing problem. rationales must be given for all nursing interventions you identify.
  

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

are you asking us to decide your topic for you?

• promoting and supporting sleep
  
• promoting and supporting personal hygiene
  
• promoting and maintaining skin integrity
  
• promoting and supporting adequate nutrition
  

you are being asked to come up with 2-3 nursing problems (that's what nursing diagnoses are) for the topic you choose and develop a care plan focused around each nursing diagnosis (nursing problem). do you not have a list of the nursing diagnoses broken down and classified by sleep, personal hygiene, skin integrity and nutrition? it sounds like a list may have been given to you in your nur109 class. these are the nursing diagnosis i would classify under some of those categories:

• sleep-rest
  
  • sleep deprivation
    
  • disturbed sleep pattern
    
  • readiness for enhanced sleep
    

  [*]personal hygiene

  • bathing/hygiene self-care deficit
    
  • dressing/grooming self-care deficit
    

  [*]skin

  • impaired skin integrity
    
  • impaired tissue integrity
    

  [*]nutrition metabolic

  • risk for aspiration
    
  • effective breastfeeding
    
  • interrupted breastfeeding
    
  • ineffective breastfeeding
    
  • impaired dentition
    
  • readiness for enhanced fluid balance
    
  • deficient fluid volume
    
  • excess fluid volume
    
  • risk for deficient fluid volume
    
  • risk for imbalanced fluid volume
    
  • hyperthermia
    
  • hypothermia
    
  • nausea
    
  • readiness for enhanced nutrition
    
  • imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
    
  • imbalanced nutrition: more than body requirements
    
  • risk for imbalanced nutrition: more than body requirements
    
  • ineffective infant feeding pattern
    
  • impaired oral mucous membrane
    
  • impaired swallowing
    

interventions with rationales for some of these diagnoses can be found online at these two websites:

• http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/evolve/ackley/ndh7e/constructor/
  
• http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/merlin/gulanick/constructor/index.cfm
  

you should also talk to an instructor to clarify the instructions for this assignment. it sounds like an assignment that will carry a lot of weight toward your final grade in the course.