Need help with nursing diagnosis!

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Specializes in Cardiac Tele.

Hello everyone, I need some help... my patients diagnosis is cellulitis.. what would be three good nursing diagnosis to start with?? I looked through my book but i was having a hard time.. Any input would be great, thanks!

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Can you give us more info? Symptoms? Assessment findings? Vitals/labs?

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Specializes in Cardiac Tele.

dont no too much yet, because i havent actually met my patient,, just introduced myself and did a quick asessment. i was just looking for good topics for the diagnosis.. but she has a h/o hypertension and is treated with medication...blister on leg covered with tegaderm... maybe tomorrow ill have more info, iguess im "jumping the gun here"..

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Specializes in Emergency.

Acute Pain r/t inflammatory changes in tissues from infection.

Impaired skin integrity r/t inflammatory process damaging skin.

Ineffective health maintenance r/t lack of knowledge regarding prevention of further incidences of infection.

Ineffective tissue perfusion: peripheral r/t edema.

Amy

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
hello everyone, i need some help... my patients diagnosis is cellulitis.. what would be three good nursing diagnosis to start with?? i looked through my book but i was having a hard time.. any input would be great, thanks!

dont no too much yet, because i havent actually met my patient,, just introduced myself and did a quick asessment. i was just looking for good topics for the diagnosis.. but she has a h/o hypertension and is treated with medication...blister on leg covered with tegaderm... maybe tomorrow ill have more info, iguess im "jumping the gun here"..

what would you think if a medical student were to ask you, "my patient has nursing diagnoses of impaired skin integrity, decreased cardiac and impaired physical mobility. what would be three good medical diagnoses to start off with?" i'm guessing that his clinical supervisor would probably give him the proverbial kick in the pants and a dressing down in front of the other medical students. i'm going to let you mull that over for a bit because you are pretty much asking the vice versa version of the question.

what you do in a situation like this where you only know the patient's medical diagnosis is that you go to a medical reference (i've listed a whole bunch of online websites for you guys to go to for this kind of information on this sticky thread:

and list out the signs and symptoms of cellulitis. it is crucial that you need the signs and symptoms in order to determine any nursing diagnosis. as you are doing some of this reading about cellulitis, wound care and hypertension think about some of the problems the patient might have with adls because there may be one or more nursing self-care diagnoses pertaining to the achievement of daily adls that might need addressing as well. and, then, you have the beginning of a care plan!

all care plans are based upon assessment information. from assessment information you get your patient's abnormal data, or signs and symptoms. it is these signs and symptoms that dictate which nursing diagnoses you will use. they are also the basis for your goals/outcomes and nursing interventions--not so much the nursing diagnoses. nursing diagnoses are merely convenient labels for the problems your patients have. you have to know what each nursing diagnosis means and the signs and symptoms (nanda calls them defining characteristics) are. each nursing diagnosis has them listed under them. that's why you need a nursing diagnosis reference book to help you out in choosing nursing diagnoses for your patients.

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