Need help w/ nursing diagnoses

[Quietstorm10]

Hello, I am in my 1st semester of the nursing program. I need help with prioritizing the following

Patient has a Hx of DVT and is admitted w/ cellulitis and a pulmonary embolism. No shortness of breath, no pain and ambulates.

current meds: coumadin, Zetia, Hydroxyurea, Nexium

I was thinking: risk for fall, bleeding. Others have suggested a pain diagnosis because that was the reason for the ER visit but currently no pain after surgery

What do you think? thanks in advance :)

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

there is nothing here to prioritize. i can't evaluate your diagnoses because you've provided no assessment data to evaluate their correctness against, so i have no way of knowing if you've diagnosed correctly or not. the patient was admitted with cellulitis and a pulmonary embolism which are medical diagnoses and have very little relationship to nursing diagnoses. both conditions can be broken down into signs and symptoms which you should have been able to observe in your patient and could also use to apply to choices in nursing diagnoses. what did you see? diagnoses are based on the evidence (symptoms) you observed. doctors do not diagnose a medical condition without doing an examination and then making a decision. every medical diagnosis has a list of symptoms. the same rules apply to nursing diagnosis. you should have done an assessment of this patient before you can made any decisions about nursing diagnoses. every nursing diagnosis has a list of defining characteristics (signs and symptoms). these can be found in a nursing diagnosis reference book, a currently published care plan book that contains nursing diagnosis information, the appendix of both taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary and mosby's medical, nursing, & allied health dictionary, and some diagnostic information can be found on these two websites:

http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/evolve/ackley/ndh7e/constructor/and

http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/merlin/gulanick/constructor/index.cfm.

otherwise, i can't help you any further because you just haven't provided enough information.