Help with careplan

you need to go to a medical reference and look up the signs and symptoms of a pe, it's pathophysiology and check to see if your patient exhibited any of those symptoms and you just missed them. if you missed any, then you need to include them in your list of the patient's symptoms.

you can find internet information by searching some of these websites listed on this thread:

• https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/medical-disease-information-treatment-procedures-test-reference-websites-258109.html - medical disease information/treatment/procedures/test reference websites

you can't make up nursing diagnoses for symptoms that the patient just doesn't have. did you assess their ability to perform adls? did you go through the patient's chart and copy down any abnormal lab values or symptoms in the doctor's h&p? do you have abgs?

sob is also a symptom of ineffective breathing pattern and impaired gas exchange. use a nursing diagnosis reference and see what other symptoms these two diagnoses have that you may have missed seeing in this patient.

the pathophysiology of a pe is such that a blood clot lodged in the lung deprives the lung of oxygen exchange to the area of the lung tissue that is cut off by the pe, subjects the patient to possible right heart ventricular failure and chest pain.