Help With Diagnosis for Nursing Care Plan

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Hello. I am hoping that someone can help me with this. I have to come up with a nursing care plan for my class including assessment data, a nursing diagnosis and two related goals, three interventions for each goal and rationale and an evalution. The scenario I was given is as follows:

Mr. Peppe is an obese 82 year old man of Italian descent who has been admitted with weakness on his right side and slurred speech. He is a diabetic and takes insulin. He is right handed and was unable to stand when he awoke this morning. He tried to drink some water but had difficulty swallowing.

I mostly need help with the nursing diagnosis. It sounds like he has had a stroke, but as a nurse I am not allowed to diagnose that. So if anyone has any help they can give me it would be soo much appreciated. Thank you :nuke:

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Specializes in Telemetry & Obs.

Does indeed sound like a stroke.

Now think what that means for this patient. He's right handed and now weak on that side. Can he do ADLs?? How will he manage his insulin administration?? He had difficulty swallowing...don't you think he's at risk for aspiration?

Most any of your good nursing books will have NDs with goals and interventions for stroke.

Just a little tidbit about allnurses....we'll be glad to help you with an assignment when you've shown that you've given it thought and done some work on it.

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

for information on how to write a care plan, and particularly, on how to determine the nursing diagnoses, see the posts on this sticky:

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