Help with nursing care plan. Chronic renal failure, pulmonary congestion

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Good morning..

Im new here...

im from the philippines and a 3rd year nursing student.

I have a patient with a diagnosis of chronic renal failure and pulmonary congestion. his chief complain is dyspnea..

On his lab results, his rbc and hemoglobin is very low which prompts him to request a 1 pack of rbc.. He is subjected to hemodialysis with a femoral catheter on his right leg. Rbc and wbc in his urinalysis are not normal and also the rbc in his stool examination..His creatinine is 875.8 umol/L which is very high.

Now i am having a problem in my ncp. i am running out of problems and nsg. diagnosis.. i hope you can help me... thank you very much

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oh my goodness...

you really need to read about chronic renal failure so you can understand all the problems it causes.

how does it affect fluid status?

cardiopulmonary function?

perfusion, cardiac/urinary output?

nutrition?

hemostasis?

etc etc etc...

please, do a little homework and it should readily fall into place.

just remember to collect all of your abnormal data on this pt and prioritize your nsg diagnoses.

best of everything.

leslie

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i need your help..

i need to have a good ncp for my nursing process guide..

his abg impression is metabolic acidosis with full compensation..

creatinine is high..

he has undergone hemodialysis with femoral catheter, but they have a problem on financial..

i just need 1 or 2 nursing diagnosis..

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

the writing of a nursing care plan is the documentation of your critical thinking process in solving the patient's nursing problems. you use the nursing process to determine what those problems (nursing diagnoses) are and then to create interventions to do something about them. there are 5 steps to the nursing process and specific things must be done in each of those steps before moving onto the next:

  1. assessment (collect data from medical record, do a physical assessment of the patient, assess adl's, look up information about your patient's medical diseases/conditions to learn about the signs and symptoms and pathophysiology)
    • a physical assessment of the patient
    • assessment of the patient's ability and any assistance they need to accomplish their adls (activities of daily living) with the disease
    • data collected from the medical record (information in the doctor's history and physical, information in the doctor's progress notes, test result information, notes by ancillary healthcare providers such as physical therapists and dietitians
    • knowing the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, usual tests ordered, and medical treatment for the medical disease or condition that the patient has. this includes knowing about any medical procedures that have been performed on the patient, their expected consequences during the healing phase, and potential complications. if this information is not known, then you need to research and find it.

[*]determination of the patient's problem(s)/nursing diagnosis (make a list of the abnormal assessment data, match your abnormal assessment data to likely nursing diagnoses, decide on the nursing diagnoses to use)

  • it helps to have a book with nursing diagnosis reference information in it. there are a number of ways to acquire this information.

[*]planning (write measurable goals/outcomes and nursing interventions)

[*]implementation (initiate the care plan)

[*]evaluation (determine if goals/outcomes have been met)

your major problem with writing this care plan for this patient with medical diagnoses of chronic renal failure and pulmonary congestion is that you must organize all the abnormal data you have collected (see step #2 of the nursing process).

  • dyspnea
  • low rbc and hemoglobin
  • rbcs and wbcs in urine
  • blood in stool
  • elevated creatinine of 875.8 umol/l
  • patient has financial problems

this data is used to help determine what the patient's nursing diagnoses are. you need a nursing diagnosis reference to help.

  • it is very likely that this patient has decreased cardiac output [related to altered afterload because of the symptom of dyspnea and the medical diagnosis of pulmonary congestion. it would be helpful to know if there are other symptoms.] [color=#3366ff]decreased cardiac output
  • ineffective breathing pattern [because of the dyspnea] ineffective breathing pattern
  • deficient fluid volume [because this patient is losing blood - low rbc and hemoglobin, blood in stool] deficient fluid volume
  • impaired urinary elimination [because this patient is on dialysis and has an elevated creatinine of 875.8 umol/l] [color=#3366ff]impaired urinary elimination
  • ineffective health maintenance [this will be related to insufficient financial resources since the patient will be unable to be able to get the health care they need without the money to pay for it] [color=#3366ff]ineffective health maintenance
  • risk for infection [it is not diagnosed by the doctors, but likely that this patient has a urinary tract infection because of the rbcs and wbcs in the urine and the impaired immune system response because of the chronic renal disease] [color=#3366ff]risk for infection

this list of nursing diagnoses cannot help you if you do not read about the medical conditions that this patient has. you need to learn about the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, usual tests ordered, the medical treatment that the doctor is going to order for the medical disease or condition that the patient has, the medical procedures that are likely to be performed, their expected consequences during the healing phase, and any potential complications. compare all this information to what has been done to your patient already and what you assessed in the patient. did you overlook anything?

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daytonite, i'm more inclined to think fluid overload vs deficient volume.

knowing that heart failure can go either way, it's the pulmonary congestion that makes me think he has too much.

leslie

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"Chronic renal failure results in an accumulation of fluid and waste products in the body, leading to a build up of nitrogen waste products in the blood and general ill health. Most body systems are affected by chronic renal failure."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/MEDLINEPLUS/ency/article/000471.htm

leslie

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daytonite, i'm more inclined to think fluid overload vs deficient volume.

knowing that heart failure can go either way, it's the pulmonary congestion that makes me think he has too much.

leslie

eta:

"Chronic renal failure results in an accumulation of fluid and waste products in the body, leading to a build up of nitrogen waste products in the blood and general ill health. Most body systems are affected by chronic renal failure."

www.nlm.nih.gov/MEDLINEPLUS/ency/article/000471.htm

leslie

I agree with Leslie. I also want to point out his anemia is probably a combination of hemodilution due to excessive volume and decreased erythropoetin production due to kidney failure, in addition to the current GI bleed. You should think about how this will affect your patient for the rest of their life.

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I also want to point out his anemia is probably a combination of hemodilution due to excessive volume and decreased erythropoetin production due to kidney failure, in addition to the current GI bleed. You should think about how this will affect your patient for the rest of their life.

my thoughts exactly.

leslie

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
daytonite, i'm more inclined to think fluid overload vs deficient volume.

knowing that heart failure can go either way, it's the pulmonary congestion that makes me think he has too much.

leslie

eta:

"Chronic renal failure results in an accumulation of fluid and waste products in the body, leading to a build up of nitrogen waste products in the blood and general ill health. Most body systems are affected by chronic renal failure."

www.nlm.nih.gov/MEDLINEPLUS/ency/article/000471.htm

leslie

I gave my reasons for my diagnosis choices and they were based on the information supplied by the OP. I follow the steps of the nursing process when I do any nursing diagnosing and incorporate the data the OP supplies. I try not to assume anything. I leave that up to the student to do. I have answered enough of these posts to know that there is often a lot of data that the students either forget to post or they just don't think is important to post. I'm not trying to do their homework for them--just giving them guidance on how to go about doing it while using the nursing process.

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