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Published Sep 3, 2008
Hi im a sophomore student nurse and still learning the nursing process. I cant make an effective nursing diagnosis about activity intolerance.Please help me... Please give me guidelines in making a diagnostic statement..please guys, i really need help..
traumaRUs, MSN, APRN
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Hi and good morning. You have posted this in the admin help forum where our posters can come to for technical advice. I will move it to the general student nursing forum and hopefully someone will be along soon to help you.
Daytonite, BSN, RN
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this is how the nursing process is applied to care planning:
[*]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)
[*]planning (write measurable goals/outcomes and nursing interventions)
[*]implementation (initiate the care plan)
[*]evaluation (determine if goals/outcomes have been met)
in order to have determined that a patient has insufficient physiological or psychological energy to endure or complete required or desired daily activities (the definition of activity intolerance) you would have determined, through applying the nursing process, that the patient had one or more of the following defining characteristics (symptoms): verbal report of fatigue or weakness, abnormal heart rate or blood pressure response to activity, exertional discomfort or dyspnea, electrocardiographic changes reflecting arrhythmias or ischemia.
the construction of the 3-part nursing diagnostic statement follows this format:
it is difficult for me to help you with this because you have provided no assessment information about this patient. please read the information on the first posts of this sticky thread in the general nursing student discussion forum:
these webpages have information about the nursing diagnosis, activity intolerance.