Help with Knowledge Deficit

That doesn't sound like a very good "nursing diagnosis". Ha ha ha! I guess some interventions could be listening to a weather radio, getting in a storm shelter, going to an interior room on the lowest level without windows, jumping in a ditch and covering your head if you're in your car, etc. Goal is knowing what to do in case of a tornado? But how do you measure that? We were always told that goals had to be measurable. Maybe this will give you somewhere to start though.

Help..We have a disaster nursing topic and our instructor wants us to do a careplan on Knowledge Deficit r/t disaster planning AEB tornado. I have no clue where to start on this one...Any suggestions on interventions/ rationales/ goals? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Agree with previous poster... interventions all are going to be teaching based so teaching the person how to prepare for a disaster - what is an appropriate shelter for a tornado, diff. between watch and warning, getting a weather radio, having extra batteries, and having a plan for their family on where they would meet after a natural disaster. As for rationales, just use common sense. As I learned in nursing school, rationales are hard only if you make them hard. Eg - Purchasing a weather radio (rationale: in case power goes out during a storm, you will still know if you need to take cover). Goals could be having the person be able to recite a plan back to you on what they would do to prepare and what they would do in the event of a tornado warning. Also, goals could be having the patient buy necessary supplies - batteries, radio, first aid kit, etc.

So what you're saying is that you have a knowledge-deficit about your knowledge deficit...

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