Don't stress too much about your nursing care plans. Just keep them simple. If you have comfort as an assigned area of care, choose "altered comfort" or "pain" for your patient so that many of your interventions will overlap. I passed my CPNE and I think that I used "risk for injury" for all 3 of my patients and for different reasons - a baby has altered perception, an old person is mobility impaired, and a person on pain meds is altered perception. AND you can use it as your priority on ANY patient because safety is most important.
dolphins84te
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Don't stress too much about your nursing care plans. Just keep them simple. If you have comfort as an assigned area of care, choose "altered comfort" or "pain" for your patient so that many of your interventions will overlap. I passed my CPNE and I think that I used "risk for injury" for all 3 of my patients and for different reasons - a baby has altered perception, an old person is mobility impaired, and a person on pain meds is altered perception. AND you can use it as your priority on ANY patient because safety is most important.